God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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