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 COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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