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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Land Path Sadness Sorrow Unknown
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Acceptance Found Thorns Traveler
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Address Addresses Little May Perhaps Smile Tears Wipe
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Innocence Innocent Pillow Seldom Uncomfortable
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock Spring Tree
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
WILLIAM COWPER

Both Goes Hand Idlers Useless Want Watches
God made the country, and man made the town.
WILLIAM COWPER

Country God Man Town
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Devil God Honey Made Men Pride
Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nice People Some Wisdom Wise
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Cease Christian Fight Fighting Prayer Restrain
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Joy Know May Passionate Temper
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPER

Audible Music Soul Sound Sympathy
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pass Sound Swift Time Unsound Wing
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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Frowned Grace Judge Judging Lord Trust
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Game King Ply Subject War Wise
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
WILLIAM COWPER

Address Anxious Become Change Conscious Feed Gesture Grace Guilt Impressed Messenger Much Tender
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER

Glory Guilt Inspirational Principle Selfish Shame War
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER

Absence Death Despair Frustrate Love Miss Missing Severer
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.”
WILLIAM COWPER

Care Done Lying Most Night Safely Tomorrow Trouble
No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Empty Man Patriot Political Politics Stomach
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Absence Cause God Name Nature Travel
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Cheer Cup Drinking Inebriate Tea
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPER

Assurance Believe Even Happy Heard Make Petition Prayer Proof

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