Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERI am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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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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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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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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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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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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