Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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