There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERWhile truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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