God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPERHe 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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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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