When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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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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All we behold is miracle.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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