Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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