Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The 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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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