There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERAccomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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