There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
WILLIAM COWPERThe 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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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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