Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
WILLIAM COWPERSkins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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