The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPERNow 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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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