Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Throws 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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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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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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