Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
WILLIAM COWPER[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Remorse begets reform.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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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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 nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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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.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPER
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