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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

William Cowper

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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Poet Lawyer
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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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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How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
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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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Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue Who prostitute it in the cause of vice, Or sell their glory at a market-price!
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
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