Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge 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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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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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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