No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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