What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPEREvents of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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