I would not enter in my list of friends, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he has the humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
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Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.William Cowper
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, Whom, snoring, she disturbs.
William Cowper
Cold as I feel this heart of mine,
Yet, since I feel it so,
It yields some hope of life divine
Within, however low.
William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
William Cowper
But war 's a game which were their subjects wise Kings would not play at.
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