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.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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All we behold is miracle.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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?
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