Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Great 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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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