Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERA life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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