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The still small voice is wanted.
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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A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
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I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.
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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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I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted ev'ning, know.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.
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Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind.
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He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns Of judgment and of mercy, should beware Of lightness in his speech.
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The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
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Absence of occupation is not rest A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave) There and there only, is the power to save.
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I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.
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