Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPERAll we behold is miracle.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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