The 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.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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