Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERWe turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
More William Cowper Quotes
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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