Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Throws 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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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