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Blest be the art that can immortalize.

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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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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A teacher should be sparing of his smile.
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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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Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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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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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Folly ends where genuine hope begins.
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His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.
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