In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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