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.
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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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