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• I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.

  William Cowper

  Loneliness, Doors, Lions

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.33

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• An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.

  William Cowper

  Crush, Humanity, Reptiles

  William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.340

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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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• To see the Law by Christ fulfilled,
  And hear His pardoning voice
  Changes a slave into a child,
  And duty into choice.

  William Cowper

  Children, Law, Voice

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.40

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• There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.

  William Cowper

  Heart, Men, Doe

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.111, Routledge

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• Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

  William Cowper

  Home, Thieves, Purses

  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.129

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• For when was public virtue to be found
  Where private was not?

  William Cowper

  Liberty, Virtue, Found

  "The Life and Works of William Cowper: Now First Completed by the Introduction of His "Private Correspondence."".

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• Domestic happiness, thou only bliss
  Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

  William Cowper

  Relationship, Happiness, Fall

  William Cowper (1814). “Poems”, p.89

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• All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.

  William Cowper

  Giving, Reform, Charity

  William Cowper (1872). “Table talk, Truth, Expostulation, Hope, Charity, and other poems”, p.108

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• No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

  William Cowper

  Sin, Scolded

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• He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
  Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
  T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
  Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.

  William Cowper

  Color, Skins, Slavery

  William Cowper (1857). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Of the Inner Temple”, p.198

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• Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

  William Cowper

  Headstone, Mercy, Shows

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1869). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author”, p.287

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• Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in

  William Cowper

  Cheer, Fall, Fire

  'The Task' (1785) bk. 4 'The Winter Evening' l. 34.

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Fate, Blow

  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.118

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• Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

  William Cowper

  Time, Guests, Fit

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: Letters, 1788-1799. Papers in the Connoisseur. Letter from an owl to a bird of paradise. Fragment of an intended commentary on Paradise lost. Account of the treatment of his hares”, p.334

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• Where penury is felt the thought is chain'd,
  And sweet colloquial pleasures are but few.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Poverty, Pleasure

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.185, Routledge

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• Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

  William Cowper

  Mistake, Men, Intuition

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1843). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author”, p.183

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• A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

  William Cowper

  Joy, Passionate, May

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.343

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• [My kitten's] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.

  William Cowper

  Cat, Would Be, Incredibles

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper, Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations”, p.267

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• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  William Cowper

  Country, Mind, May

  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.369

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• Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.

  William Cowper

  Alive, Habit, Strive

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.91

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• How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

  William Cowper

  Past, Wish, Trying

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.266

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• Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.

  William Cowper

  Dream, Money, Wings

  William Cowper (1826). “Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery”, p.264

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• The still small voice is wanted.

  William Cowper

  Voice, Wanted, Stills

  William Cowper, William Hayley, John William Cunningham (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems ; Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.211

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• Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

  William Cowper

  Church, Scorn, Built

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.161

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