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.
WILLIAM COWPERBooks are not seldom talismans and spells.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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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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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.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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