O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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