While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPEREvents of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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He 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.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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