Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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