The man that dares traduce, because he can with safety to himself, is not a man.
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When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave.William Cowper
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
William Cowper
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
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown no traveler ever reached that blessed abode who found not thorns and briars in his road.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
William Cowper
Religion does not censure or excludeUnnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.
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