Remorse begets reform.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
More William Cowper Quotes
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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