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.
WILLIAM COWPEROh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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