There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERI am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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.
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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 man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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