Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
WILLIAM COWPERIt chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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