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Unmissed but by his dogs and by his groom.

William Cowper

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
Hymnwriter
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Poet Lawyer
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Groom
Dogs
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Friendship

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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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That good diffused may more abundant grow.
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume And we are weeds without it.
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.
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Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.
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Heaven's harmony is universal love.
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Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wifeWhen friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.
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