O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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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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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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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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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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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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