O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERGreat 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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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