Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERWould 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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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