The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Remorse begets reform.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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