I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERThe man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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