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.
WILLIAM COWPERAn idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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 moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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