Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERMaintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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