Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPERWould I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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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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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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