The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERSends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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