There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
WILLIAM COWPERRestraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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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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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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