Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
WILLIAM COWPERNo man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
More William Cowper Quotes
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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