In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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