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• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

  William Cowper

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “Miscellaneous poems. Olney hymns. Anti-Thelyphthora. Table talk and other poems. Translations from Vincent Bourne”, p.28

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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

  William Cowper

  Men, Political, Politics

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• How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Believe, Proof

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

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Selfish, War

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

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• The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Flower, Bud

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.34

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• Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

  William Cowper

  Wisdom, Fall, Taken

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

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• A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

  William Cowper

  Pride, Men, Self

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• Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.

  William Cowper

  Men, He Man, Employed

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• How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

  William Cowper

  Home, Dunces, Has Beens

  'The Progress of Error' (1782) l. 415

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• Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.

  William Cowper

  Degrees, Judgment, Pleasure

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.21

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• Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

  William Cowper

  Kissing, Soul, Tears

  William Cowper, Nick Rhodes (2003). “William Cowper: Selected Poems”, p.23, Psychology Press

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• Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

  William Cowper

  Tire, Pleasure, Labor

  William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.75

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• The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

  William Cowper

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.419

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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.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Peaceful

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.41

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• Still ending, and beginning still.

  William Cowper

  Life, Still Life, Stills

  William Cowper (1849). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq., Including the Copyright Poems, with a Life of the Author, from the Edition of Robert Southey”, p.222

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• War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.

  William Cowper

  Wise, Kings, War

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 5 'The Winter Morning Walk' l. 187

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• Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

  William Cowper

  Simplicity, Ecstasy, Warm

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham (1835). “The works ¬of William Cowper: Poems : with an essay on the genius and poetry of Cowper”, p.20

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• The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

  William Cowper

  Hope, Passed Away, Tomorrow

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• He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.

  William Cowper

  Views, Purpose, World

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1837). “Life and Works, by Robert Southey. - London, Baldwin and Crodok 1835-1837”, p.112

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• Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

  William Cowper

  War, Successful, Solitude

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• Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.

  William Cowper

  Simple, Men, Grace

  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.556

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• This fond attachment to the well-known place
  Whence first we started into life's long race,
  Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway,
  We feel it e'en in age, and at our latest day.

  William Cowper

  Home, Race, Attachment

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.224

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• If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

  William Cowper

  Strong, Attitude, Men

  William Cowper (1853). “The Works of William Cowper”, p.29

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• There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

  William Cowper

  Pain, Poetry, Poetic

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 2 'The Timepiece' l. 285

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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

  William Cowper

  Lying, Sick, Solitude

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With a Memoir of the Author”, p.124

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