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.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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All we behold is miracle.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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