A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
WILLIAM COWPERThrows 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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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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