The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
WILLIAM COWPERHe finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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