The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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