We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
WILLIAM COWPERHabits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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All we behold is miracle.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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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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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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