When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPERCeremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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