No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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