Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERTo 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.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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