Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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