Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
WILLIAM COWPERPride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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