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Religion, richest favor of the skies.

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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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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The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Hast thou not learnd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle is the Lords?
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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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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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