[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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