While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Remorse begets reform.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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