The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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