Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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