The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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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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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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