Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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