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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. - [Meditation] To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils. - [Anger] Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks--love, and the contemplation of the Deity. - [Love] Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world. - [Vice] Were both the golden Indies mine, I'd give both Indies for a tear. - [Weeping] When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. - [Sophistry] When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. - [Observation] When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness. - [Study] Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessings without number Gently falling on thy head. - A Cradle Hymn [Babyhood : Sleep] For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do. - Against Idleness [Idleness] How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower. - Against Idleness [Bees] Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and loons grown and fight, For 'tis their nature too. - Against Quarreling [Quarreling] Softly his fainting head he lay Upon his Maker's breast; His Maker kiss'd his soul away, And laid his flesh to rest. - Death of Moses, in Lyrics [Death] In books, or work, or healthful play, Let my first years be past, That I may give for every day Some good account at last. - Divine and Moral Songs for Children--Against Idleness and Mischief (song XX) [Childhood : Work] I have been there, and still would go; 'Tis like a little heaven below. - Divine Songs (28) [Heaven] Birds in their little nests agree: And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. - Divine Songs (XVII) [Childhood] Lord, I ascribe it to Thy grace, And not to chance, as others do, That I was born of Christian race. - Divine Songs for Children [Christianity] But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes. - Divine Songs for Children--Against Quarreling and Fighting [Passion : Quarreling] But Thy good word informs my soul How I may climb to heaven. - Excellency of the Bible [Scripture] Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measur'd by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. - False Greatness--Horae Lyricae (bk. II) [Soul] And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. I, hymn 88) [Repentance] So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 'tis a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, 146) [Change] Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, 19) [Music] There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, 66) [Heaven] The tall, the wise, the reverend head, Must lie as low as ours. - Hymns and Spiritual Songs (bk. II, hymn 63) [Death : Equality] Displaying page 3 of 4 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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