The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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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