The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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