Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
WILLIAM COWPERWar’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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