What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERA heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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God made the country, and man made the town.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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Grief is itself a medicine.
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