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.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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