How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Remorse begets reform.
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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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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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