Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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