Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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