The best Quotes by William Cowper

The best Quotes by William Cowper

William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.
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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.
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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
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Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.
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If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.
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"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."
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I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair.
I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare.
I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind.
I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.
I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie.
I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.
I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.
But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you.
Not even close,
not even a little bit,
not even at all!
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Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
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Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.
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I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
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You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.
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Sometimes we need to be apart to understand just how much we truly love each other.
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It's funny because everything makes me think of you. I read a poem, and I wonder what you'd say about it.
I see people, and I wonder you'd know about them.
Everywhere I go, I run into something, that reminds me of you all over again.
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Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow
Only know your lover when you let her go
Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home
Only know your lover when you've let her go
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You can love someone so much... but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.
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Love's involved with spending time together, but spending time apart, can lead to loving even more.
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I only miss you when I'm breathing
I only need you when my heart is beating
You are the color that I'm bleeding
I only miss you when I'm breathing
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"I miss you," I whispered.
"I know, Bella. Believe me, I know. It's like you've taken half my self away with you."
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It's hard missing someone, but if you miss someone, that means, you're lucky. It means you had someone special in your life, someone worth missing.
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Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love but that doesn't make you love them less. Sometimes you love them more. 
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April is a gentle reminder for not having done a single thing from your new year resolution for three months and not doing any for the next nine.
April weather, rain and sunshine both together.
Snow in April is abominable. Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.
April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
April showers bring forth May flowers.
Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.
Nobody is perfect, but people born in April almost get there.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
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I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid.
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My definition of patriotism is to defend your country with the truth, no matter the consequences.
To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one
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Definition: Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?
A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.
I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service.
One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.
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What do you call an Asian Dwayne Johnson?
The Wok.
I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror.
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

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