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Quotations by author » William Cowper
English Poet One of the most widely read English poets of his day, 1731-1800
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Made poetry a mere mechanical art.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will
Compassion
Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit
Manners
May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore,/ The parting word shall pass my lips no more!
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Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.
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Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease,
Not slothful, happy to deceive the time,
Not waste it, and aware that human life
Is but a loan to be repaid with use.
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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
HeartMeditation
Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
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Mine is an unchanging love,
Higher than the heights above,
Deeper than the depths beneath,
Free and faithful, strong as death.
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Misses the tale that I relate - This lesson seems to carry - Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry
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Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are.
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Mountains interposed / Make enemies of nations, who had else, / Like kindred drops, been mingled into one.
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My God, till I received thy stroke, / How like a beast was I! / So unaccustomed to the yoke, / So backward to comply.
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My hat and wig will soon be here, / They are upon the road.
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My sin and judgment are alike peculiar. I am a castaway, deserted and condemned.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
Nature
Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower.
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No dancing bear was so genteel, / Or half so dégagé.
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