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[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

William Cowper

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
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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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The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.
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Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
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A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair Honesty shines with great advantage there.
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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
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The dogs did bark, the children screamed, Up flew the windows all And every soul bawled out, Well done! As loud as he could bawl.
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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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