War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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All we behold is miracle.
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