It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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