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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
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Hertfordshire
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Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd, And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.
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[My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The solemn fop significant and budge A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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I am out of humanity's reach.
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Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home But elegance, chief grace the garden shows, And most attractive, is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
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No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.
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Lived in his saddle, loved the chase, the course, And always, ere he mounted, kiss'd his horse.
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My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
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Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
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Most satirists are indeed a public scourge Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.
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