The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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