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.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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