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.
WILLIAM COWPERElegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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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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