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,
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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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