Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
WILLIAM COWPERExistence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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