Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERAlas! 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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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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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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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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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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