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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

William Cowper

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPER

Being Connection Knowledge Men Mind Often Time Wisdom
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
WILLIAM COWPER

Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Heaven Lost Oar Prevail Toil
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPER

Anniversary Delightful Friendship Life Love Marriage Wife
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPER

Amarantine Earth Flower Only Virtue
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPER

Audible Music Soul Sound Sympathy
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cease Christian Fight Fighting Prayer Restrain
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Flower Luster Perfume Weed Wisdom
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPER

Existence Happiness Life Little Owe
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
WILLIAM COWPER

Devil Knee Prayer Saint Trembles Weakness
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bitter Bud God Interpreter Olan Sweet Taste Unbelief Vain Will
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER

Admit Degrees Enslave Judgment Leave Pleasure
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
WILLIAM COWPER

Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPER

Nice People Some Wisdom Wise
Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER

Beginning End Life Still

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