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God made the country, and man made the town.

William Cowper

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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPER

Greatly Pity Rum Slavery Sugar
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER

Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPER

Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPER

Begin Church Leprosy Nation Perish Sin
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
WILLIAM COWPER

Know Memories Pain Peaceful Pleasure Poet Poetic Sweet
Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
WILLIAM COWPER

Check Employed Good Happy Life Man
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPER

Absence Inspirational Motivational Proof Suicide
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPER

Inverted Ruler Winter Year
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Courage Failure Move Moving Mysterious Perform
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
WILLIAM COWPER

Being Connection Knowledge Men Mind Often Time Wisdom
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER

Innocence Innocent Pillow Seldom Uncomfortable
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 COWPER

Country Fault Love May Mind Still
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?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride

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