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 COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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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