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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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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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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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