God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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