Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERI 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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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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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