The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
WILLIAM COWPERWould I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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