Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
WILLIAM COWPERI will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
More William Cowper Quotes
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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