The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
WILLIAM COWPERI venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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