Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
William Cowper
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While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course. -
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation. -
All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. -
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. -
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.
More quotes by William Cowper
- The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
- Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
- Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
- God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
- Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.