Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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