It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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