Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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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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