Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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