Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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All we behold is miracle.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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