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Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.
William Cowper
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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
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How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.
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Those flimsy webs that break as soon as wrought, attain not to the dignity of thought.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.
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Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, Built as it has been in our waning years, A rest afforded to our weary feet, Preliminary to - the last retreat.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
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Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.
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