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Quote by William Cowper
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. - William

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. – William Cowper

Other quotes by William Cowper

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. – William Cowper

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Insanity
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William Cowper
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper

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Guests
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Nature

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. – Phillips Brooks

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Nature

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. – Wendell Berry

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Nature

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In the artists recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world. – John W. Gardner

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Artist, The

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends. – Major Taylor

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Friendship

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean. – John Locke

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great

The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, “Spring back or Fall in.” – Dave Beard, @Raqhun)

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Time