What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPERWhat is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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