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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

William Cowper

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
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Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless wretch! condemn'd to dwell Forever in my native shell, Ordained to move when others please, Not for my own content or ease But toss'd and buffeted about, Now in the water and now out.
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Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.
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Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.
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Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
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