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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

William Cowper

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Danger More never Ourselves Reality Secure Thinking
Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Good Grow Living Lying Quality Sanctuary Sick Solitude
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Amarantine Earth Flower Only Virtue
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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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Console Pain Pleasure String Vices Virtue
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Friend Grant Loneliness Pas Retreat Solitude Sweet Whisper
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Bitter Bud Flower Sweet Taste
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Alone Flower Luster Perfume Weed Wisdom
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
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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Country Fault Love May Mind Still
[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Cat Describe Fambol Incredible Kitten
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
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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Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Devil Knee Prayer Saint Trembles Weakness
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPER

Assurance Believe Even Happy Heard Make Petition Prayer Proof

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

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