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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPER

Apealted Blest Blood Chill Each Hear Rude Rudely Supreme Theme Trifling
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Joy Know May Passionate Temper
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
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Atheist Base Bear Cross Earth Easter Only Slave
Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPER

Art Baffle Claim Immortalize Painting Quench Time Tyrannic
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cheer Cup Drinking Inebriate Tea
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
WILLIAM COWPER

Existence Happiness Life Little Owe
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPER

Amarantine Earth Flower Only Virtue
The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Bird Endurance Future Least Longest Wings
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
WILLIAM COWPER

Console Pain Pleasure String Vices Virtue
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
Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bliss Kissing Soul Tear Unseen Weep
All we behold is miracle.
WILLIAM COWPER

All Behold Miracle
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

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