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?
WILLIAM COWPERMan may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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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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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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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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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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