Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERPleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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