Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
WILLIAM COWPERSolitude, 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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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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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. 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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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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