Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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