The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERIn a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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