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.
WILLIAM COWPERThe only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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 kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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