There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERThe path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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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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