Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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