The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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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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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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