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.
WILLIAM COWPERGod made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
WILLIAM COWPER