God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERHeaven’s harmony is universal love.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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