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 COWPERThe kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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