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 COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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