Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERGod 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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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