But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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 proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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