Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERTruth is the golden girdle of the globe.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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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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England 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.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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 self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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 darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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