A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPERMen deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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