No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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