Grief is itself a medicine.
WILLIAM COWPERThe bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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