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 COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
More William Cowper Quotes
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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