Beware of desperate steps the darkest day, Lived till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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
Friendly to peace, but not to me!
William Cowper
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
William Cowper
Faults in the life breed errors in the brain,And these, reciprocally, those again.
William Cowper
Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid In every bosom where her nest is made.
William Cowper
Made poetry a mere mechanic art And every warbler has his tune by heart.
William Cowper
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