Quotes by William Cowper

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

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"God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."

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"God made the country, and man made the town."

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"Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

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"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

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

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"No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach."

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"Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay."

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"Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God."

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