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William Cowper on Men

1731–1800 England

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An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

But strive still to be a man before your mother.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

So man, the moth, is not afraid, it seems,
To span Omnipotence, and measure might
That knows no measure, by the scanty rule
And standard of his own, that is to-day,
And is not ere to-morrow's sun go down.

The Task (1785)

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