Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERGrief is itself a medicine.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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