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

William Cowper

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.
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Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar.
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This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave) There and there only, is the power to save.
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Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.
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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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He that runs may read.
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