A fool must now and then be right, by chance
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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