Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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 bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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