Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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