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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

William Cowper

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Good Grow Living Lying Quality Sanctuary Sick Solitude
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Doctrine Hand Heart Life Man Pure Venerate
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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Courage Failure Move Moving Mysterious Perform
There 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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Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
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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Bare Behind Blamer Brand Magisterial More Offense Own Satire Strip
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Alone Heaven Lost Oar Prevail Toil
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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Atheist Base Bear Cross Earth Easter Only Slave
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Begin Breathe Sight Spirit Upon World
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Bear Fatigue Indolent Insupportable Poor Rich Think Thinking Weak
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Attentive Head Knowledge Men Own Repeat Thought Widsom
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Difficult Ease Happiness Life Pursuit

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