I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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