They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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