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• Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Vices, Virtue

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• But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

  William Cowper

  Mean, Ease, Modesty

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.158

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• Some people are more nice than wise.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Wisdom, Nice

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.213

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• Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

  William Cowper

  Sports, Pain, Hunting

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 3 'The Garden' l. 326 (on hunting)

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• My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

  William Cowper

  Sick, Soul, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “Thoughts on War and Warriors; extracted from the poetical writings of William Cowper”, p.15

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• All we behold is miracle.

  William Cowper

  Miracle

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.200, Routledge

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• The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.

  William Cowper

  Wings, Bird, Endurance

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.334

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• Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

  William Cowper

  Christian, Prayer, Fighting

  William Cowper, “Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer”

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• Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

  William Cowper

  Gossip, Ears, Trumpets

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.212

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

  William Cowper

  White, Black, Skins

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1850). “The works of Cowper and Thomson including many letters and poems never before published in this country: With a new memoir of the life of Thomson”, p.122

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• Absence of occupation is not rest.

  William Cowper

  Occupation, Absence

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.207

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• He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
  And all are slaves besides.

  William Cowper

  Freedom, Slave, Freeman

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.193

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• What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?

  William Cowper

  Anniversary, Wife, Friendship Love

  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.162

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• God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

  William Cowper

  God, Beach, Moving

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Fighting, Shadow

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.65

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• A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

  William Cowper

  Life, Happiness, Ease

  William Cowper (1815). “Poems”, p.290

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• But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

  William Cowper

  Heaven, Toil, Lost

  William Cowper (1822). “The poems of William Cowper”, p.226

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• I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Men, Hands

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.391

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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.

  William Cowper

  Get Well, Recovery, Keys

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

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• In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

  William Cowper

  Buried, Tombs

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• Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense? I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.

  William Cowper

  Forgiveness, Blessing, Enemy

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783”

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance

  William Cowper

  Truth, Humorous, Intellectual

  "Conversation" l. 96 (1782)

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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.

  William Cowper

  Atheist, Easter, Earth

  William Cowper, D Macvean (1830). “Poems”, p.36

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• Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

  William Cowper

  Nature, Travel, Names

  William Cowper, “The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon”

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• A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

  William Cowper

  Atheism, Dear, Heretic

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