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 from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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