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Quotes by William Cowper

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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.
The LORD works in mysterious ways.
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The LORD works in mysterious ways.
She, that will with kittens jest, should bear a kitten's joke.
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She, that will with kittens jest, should bear a kitten's joke.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death and frustrates hope severer than despair.
It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
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It is a general rule of Judgment, that a mischief should rather be admitted than an inconvenience.
Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment, hoodwinked.
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Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment, hoodwinked.
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single.
But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
A fool . . . says little, but that little said owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.
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A fool . . . says little, but that little said owes all its weight, like loaded dice, to lead.
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