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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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