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.
WILLIAM COWPERThe proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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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 kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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