Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPERSolitude, 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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Remorse begets reform.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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