Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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