How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
WILLIAM COWPERTime, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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