If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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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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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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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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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 Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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