Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPER
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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