Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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 a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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