O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERWhen nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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