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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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