Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERVariety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
More William Cowper Quotes
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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