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.
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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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