Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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