Grief is itself a medicine.
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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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 natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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