An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERThe cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
More William Cowper Quotes
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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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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