Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
WILLIAM COWPERNor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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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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