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.
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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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