The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.William Cowper
Me, therefore, studious of laborious ease,Not slothful, happy to deceive the time,Not waste it, and aware that human lifeIs but a loan to be repaid with use.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown no traveler ever reached that blessed abode who found not thorns and briars in his road.
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Oh let me then at length be taughtWhat I am still so slow to learnThat God is love, and changes not,Nor knows the shadow of a turn.
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What is it but a map of busy life,Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns
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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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