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 COWPERThe still small voice is wanted.
More William Cowper Quotes
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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