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.
WILLIAM COWPERUnless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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All we behold is miracle.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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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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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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