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 COWPERA fool must now and then be right, by chance
More William Cowper Quotes
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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.
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