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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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