I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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