God made the country, and man made the town.
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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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