Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
WILLIAM COWPEREngland with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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