All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPERTrials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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