They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPER
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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