William Cowper - Love Quotes

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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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And still to love, though prest with ill,
In wintry age to feel no chill,
With me is to be lovely still,
My Mary!

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
And frustrate hope severer than despair.

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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.

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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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Society friendship and love
Divinely bestow'd upon man,
O had I the wings of a dove
How soon I would taste you again!

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Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free.

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Lord, it is my chief complaint, That my love is weak and faint; Yet I love thee and adore, Oh for grace to love thee more!

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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

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Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

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They love the country, and none else, who seek
For their own sake its silence and its shade.
Delights which who would leave, that has a heart
Susceptible of pity, or a mind
Cultured and capable of sober thought.

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E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream
thy flowing wounds supply,
redeeming love has been my theme,
and shall be till I die.

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When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

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