Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse begets reform.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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