But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
WILLIAM COWPEREngland with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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