There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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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 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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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