This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPERSome people are more nice than wise.
More William Cowper Quotes
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Remorse begets reform.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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