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 COWPERThe darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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