What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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