Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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