Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning 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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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