If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERThe Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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