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.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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 proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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