Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERTo 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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