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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Cheer Column Cup Each Evening Preach Steamy Welcome
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Both Goes Hand Idlers Useless Want Watches
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Admit Degrees Enslave Judgment Leave Pleasure
Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Exterior Fall Grace Place Taken Wisdom
But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Heaven Lost Oar Prevail Toil
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Game King Ply Subject War Wise
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Begin Church Leprosy Nation Perish Sin
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Inverted Ruler Winter Year
The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPER

Still Voice Want Wanted
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Cheer Cup Drinking Inebriate Tea
God made the country, and man made the town.
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Country God Man Town
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER

Attachment Home Known Life Place Race Start
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Atheist Base Bear Cross Earth Easter Only Slave
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPER

Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bitter Bud God Interpreter Olan Sweet Taste Unbelief Vain Will
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Labor Much Pleasure Tire Tries

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