Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPERThe nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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