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.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Remorse begets reform.
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