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 COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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