Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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