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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Pass Sound Swift Time Unsound Wing
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
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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Every Mistakes Reasoning Step Tread
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
WILLIAM COWPER

Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Creator Made Man Pride Self Worship
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bird Endurance Future Least Longest Wings
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
WILLIAM COWPER

Greatly Pity Rum Slavery Sugar
Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affection Black Dwell Skin White
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Alone Flower Luster Perfume Weed Wisdom
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
WILLIAM COWPER

Above Buried Flesh Ground Tomb
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Glory Guilt Inspirational Principle Selfish Shame War
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Egg Fatal Laid Pleasure Regret Remorse

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