Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
WILLIAM COWPERThus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The still small voice is wanted.
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