A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPERGreat 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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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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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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