The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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