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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

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William Cowper
Age: 68 †
Born: 1731
Born: November 26
Died: 1800
Died: April 25
Hymnwriter
Poet
Poet Lawyer
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Berkhamsted
Hertfordshire
Dwells
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Affection
Skins
White
Black
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.
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Our love is principle, and has its root In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
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Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at interval upon the ear In cadence sweet now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Memory slept.
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Learning itself, received into a mind By nature weak, or viciously inclined, Serves but to lead philosophers astray, Where children would with ease discern the way.
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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
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Laugh at all you trembled at before.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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As if the world and they were hand and glove.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
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