Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERThere is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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