Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERGod 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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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