Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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