While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPEREngland with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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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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