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.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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