Thou god of our idolatry, the press. . . .Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wiseThou ever-bubbling spring of endless liesLike Eden's dread probationary tree,Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
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When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings.William Cowper
But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast The breath of heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me hell might afford my miseries a shelter therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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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 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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