Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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 made the country, and man made the town.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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