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Quote by William Cowper
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. – William Cowper

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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a strangers treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enrolld me, minds are never to be sold. – William Cowper

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