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 COWPERNor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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