Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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