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.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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 are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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