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 COWPERManner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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