God made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
More William Cowper Quotes
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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