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.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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All we behold is miracle.
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