They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
WILLIAM COWPERO solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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