God made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPERThey whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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