Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
WILLIAM COWPERThrows up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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