Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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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 darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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