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• The man that hails you Tom or Jack, and proves by thumps upon your back how he esteems your merit, is such a friend, that one had need be very much his friend indeed to pardon or to bear it.

  William Cowper

  Friendship, Men, Needs

  'Friendship' (1782) l. 169

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• To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

  William Cowper

  Science, Design, Signatures

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.148

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• Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

  William Cowper

  Dust, Contests, Contention

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 161

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• Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Imagination, Fancy

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• Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

  William Cowper

  Home, Dark, Space

  "Retirement" l. 691 (1782)

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• Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.

  William Cowper

  Missing, Lessons, Tales

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.119

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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.

  William Cowper

  Light, Arrows, Mind

  William Cowper (1858). “Works of Cowper and Thomson”, p.114

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• Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

  William Cowper

  Money, Lying, Names

  'Table Talk' (1782) l. 420 (Perjury)

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• Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.

  William Cowper

  Men, Thinking, Care

  William Cowper (1853). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel”, p.17

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• There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.

  William Cowper

  Clerks, Sparks, Preaching

  William Cowper, John Smythe MEMES (1861). “The Letters of William Cowper. Edited by Rev. J. S. Memes. [With a Portrait.]”, p.82

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• A moral, sensible, and well-bred manWill not affront me, and no other can.

  William Cowper

  Moral, Courtesy, Manners

  William Cowper, “Conversation”

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• As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

  William Cowper

  Ivy, Rotten, Stones

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 285

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• Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
  To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

  William Cowper

  Art, Modest, Virgins

  William Cowper (1819). “Poems”, p.76

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• The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade
  Pants for the refuge of some rural shade,
  Where all his long anxieties forgot
  Amid the charms of a sequester'd spot,
  Or recollected only to gild o'er
  And add a smile to what was sweet before,
  He may possess the joys he thinks he sees,
  Lay his old age upon the lap of ease,
  Improve the remnant of his wasted span.
  And having lived a trifler, die a man.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Retirement, Thinking

  William Cowper (1847). “Poems, with a memoir of the author”, p.146

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