Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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