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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

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
Elegant
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How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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As if the world and they were hand and glove.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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All truth is precious, if not all divine and what dilates the powers must needs refine.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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