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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

~William Cowper

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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

~William Cowper

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The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 26th, 1731

Died: April 25th, 1800

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