The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPERThere 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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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 of proof is not proof of absence.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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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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