An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPERThis fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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 cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER