The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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