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.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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