Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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