What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERHow sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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