There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERHe finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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