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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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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
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She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.
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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies... To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
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Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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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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Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way.
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Tis pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, To peep at such a world to see the stir Of the Great Babel, and not feel the crowd.
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
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As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
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When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?
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