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 COWPERBlest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Remorse begets reform.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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