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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
William Cowper
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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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Hertfordshire
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
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Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.
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I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
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Lights of the world, and stars of human race.
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It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
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For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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An epigram is but a feeble thing - With straw in tail, stuck there by way of sting.
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He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
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