It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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 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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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