Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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