God made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
More William Cowper Quotes
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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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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All we behold is miracle.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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