I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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