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Great offices will have great talents.

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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They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
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The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
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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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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.
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All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil.
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Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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As if the world and they were hand and glove.
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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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A Christian's wit is offensive light, A beam that aids, but never grieves the sight Vig'rous in age as in the flush of youth, 'Tis always active on the side of truth.
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England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
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