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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,

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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPER

Day Death Every Happier Look
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Away Darkest Day Hope Passed Tomorrow
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Behind Face Frowning Grace Hide Judge Lord Providence Sense
I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bless Cease Continue Enemies Friend Pray Such
The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPER

Forbear Forgiving Happier Kindest Occasion Pair Pity Something
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
WILLIAM COWPER

Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
WILLIAM COWPER

Care Done Lying Most Night Safely Tomorrow Trouble
Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bare Behind Blamer Brand Magisterial More Offense Own Satire Strip
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
WILLIAM COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Egg Fatal Laid Pleasure Regret Remorse
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPER

Comes Happiness Only Ourselves Purpose Squandering
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
WILLIAM COWPER

Built Church God Laugh Scorn
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cats Children Deal Life Mena Misuse Plan Toy Way

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