Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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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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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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