The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
WILLIAM COWPERNow 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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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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