The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERFar happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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