William Cowper Short Quotes

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Gloriously drunk, obey th' important call.

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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

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God made the country, and man made the town.

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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.

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I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins.

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Built God a church, and laugh'd his word to scorn.

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Nature is a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.

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Doing good,
Disinterested good, is not our trade.

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I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since.

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Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.

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A worm is in the bud of youth,
And at the root of age.

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Nature is but a name for an effect,
Whose cause is God.

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Glory, built
On selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

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There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know.

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

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Survivor sole, and hardly such, of all
that once lived here

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Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

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Newton, childlike sage!
Sagacious reader of the works of God.

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She, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

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Religion! what treasure untold
Resides in that heavenly word!

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A kick that scarce would move a horse
May kill a sound divine.

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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.

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Misery still delights to trace
Its semblance in another's case.

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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.

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Some to the fascination of a name
Surrender judgment hoodwink'd.

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Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

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I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau
If birds confabulate or no.

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And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.

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Prove that you have human feelings,
Ere you proudly question ours!

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