Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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