O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPERJudge 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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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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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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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