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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

William Cowper

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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Anniversary Delightful Friendship Life Love Marriage Wife
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Mind Occupation Quite Relaxation Wisdom
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Every Mistakes Reasoning Step Tread
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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Doctrine Grace Language Men Plain Simple Sincere
Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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Art Baffle Claim Immortalize Painting Quench Time Tyrannic
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Existence Happiness Life Little Owe
He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Both Fifty Litle No Other Purpose View World
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Love Mercy Son Therefore
Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Absence Happen Occupation Rest
Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Air Flame Light Love Unless
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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Danger More never Ourselves Reality Secure Thinking
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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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
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.
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Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
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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Color Enforce Fellow Find Guilty Power Skin Slavery Wrong

The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

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