While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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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.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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