Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
WILLIAM COWPER
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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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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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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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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