Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
WILLIAM COWPERPerhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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