The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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