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 COWPERHe that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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