Religion does not censure or excludeUnnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enoughThe dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.William Cowper
What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns
William Cowper
Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wiseThou ever-bubbling spring of endless liesLike Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
William Cowper
A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.
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Some men make gain a fountain whence proceedsA stream of liberal and heroic deeds.
William Cowper
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.
William Cowper
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