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• A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.

  William Cowper

  Light, Giving, Age

  William Cowper (1855). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems : Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.677

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• Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.

  William Cowper

  Hands, Punishment, Speak

  William Cowper (1872). “Table Talk”, p.58

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• I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

  William Cowper

  Sleep, Fans, Slavery

  William Cowper (1811). “The task: a poem”, p.40

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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?

  William Cowper

  Success, Art, Battle

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.63

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• The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow.

  William Cowper

  Care, Today, Tomorrow

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• When from soft love proceeds the deep distress, ah! why forbid the willing tears to flow?

  William Cowper

  Tears, Flow, Distress

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.10

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• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

  William Cowper

  Sports, Country, Mad

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the play-place of our early days; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone, That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Sight, Play

  William Cowper (1790). “Poems: by William Cowper, ... In two volumes. ...”, p.237

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• Blest be the art that can immortalize.

  William Cowper

  Art, Immortality

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: The task. Tirocinium. Miscellaneous poems. Adam: a sacred drama, tr. from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini”, p.283

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• ... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

  William Cowper

  Cat, Bears, Kitten

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.157

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• Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.

  William Cowper

  Fire, Mind, Fanatics

  William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.245

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• When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Nature, Long

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.145

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• A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

  William Cowper

  Life, Success, Wise

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.155

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• In man or woman, but far most in man,
  And most of all in man that ministers,
  And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe
  All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn:
  Object of my implacable disgust.

  William Cowper

  Men, Perfect, Soul

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.140

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