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 COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
More William Cowper Quotes
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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