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.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
More William Cowper Quotes
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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