No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPERBuilt God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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