The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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