No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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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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