Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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