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 COWPERDetested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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