No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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