Some people are more nice than wise.
WILLIAM COWPERNo traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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