Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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 from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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And 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.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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