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The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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 friend.
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Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man yet mistakes his way,
While meaner things, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
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But Conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
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Oh! for a closer walk with God,
A calm and heav'nly frame;
A light to shine upon the road
That leads me to the Lamb!
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Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
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Learning itself, received into a mind
By nature weak, or viciously inclined,
Serves but to lead philosophers astray,
Where children would with ease discern the way.
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But 'tis not timber, lead and stone, An architect requires alone, To finish a fine building — The palace were but half complete, If he could possibly forget The carving and the gilding.
William Cowper
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
William Cowper
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Born:
November 26, 1731
Died:
April 25, 1800
(aged 68)
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