Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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