Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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