This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERA fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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