An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.
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Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, And Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'd to his taste, inviting him abroad Can he want occupation who has these.William Cowper
Says John, It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
William Cowper
Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its powerTill all the ransomed church of God be saved, to sin no more.
William Cowper
Pleasure admitted in undue degree Enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
William Cowper
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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
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