Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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