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Quote by 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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one… – William Cowper

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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper

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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper

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