Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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