There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Now 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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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