God made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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