Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPER
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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