Absence of occupation is not rest.
WILLIAM COWPERAnd 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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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