There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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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.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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