He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
WILLIAM COWPERTea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
More William Cowper Quotes
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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.
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