Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse begets reform.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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