Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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