Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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