War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
WILLIAM COWPERThe rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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