…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPERAbsence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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