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 COWPERAbsence of occupation is not rest.
More William Cowper Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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