The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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