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" He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. "
Cousins - Pągina 238
per Lucy Bethia Walford - 1879 - 513 pągines
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The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice ...

William Cowper - 1855 - 580 pągines
...is fatal here. With caution taste the sweet Circean cup ; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flay'd alive. Call'd to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volums 3-4

1857 - 588 pągines
...things, and in respect both to mind and matter, the mysteries of nature remain inscrutable. * HABITS. — Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. — Cowper. DRESS. — Exceed not in the humour of rags and bravery, for these will soon wear out of...
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The Exoteric Duties of Free Masons: An Address Delivered Before Trenton ...

Thomas Johnson Corson - 1859 - 168 pągines
...gains a power over us that can be overcome only by the most determined and unremitting exertions. " Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive." Of all the vices of which men are -guilty, this is the least excusable. It destroys our own self-respect...
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St. Augustine

John Baillie - 1859 - 324 pągines
...him to Milan ; and his "heart cleaved" to her with a guilty affection. " Habits," it has been said, "Are soon assumed; but, when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flay'd alive." Augustine was "the slave of lust;" the "disease of his soul was kept up with vigour...
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The Poems of William Cowper ...

William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pągines
...is fatal here. With cautious taste the sweet Circean cup: He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Called to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander...
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The Ashlar, Volum 5

Allyn Weston, Charles Scott - 1860 - 642 pągines
...gains a power over us that can be overcome only by the most determined and unremitting exertions. " Habits are soon assumed ; but when we strive To strip them off, "t is being flayed alive." Of all the vices of which men are guilty, this is the least excusable. It...
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Moral and Religious Quotations from the Poets: Topically Arranged ...

1861 - 356 pągines
...but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! LONGFELLOW. [See also THE FALL — TEMPTATION.] HABIT. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off 'tis being flayed alive. COWPEE. All habits gather by unseen degrees; As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. DRYDEN. How...
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Poetical works

William Cowper - 1863 - 96 pągines
...is fatal here. With caution taste the sweet Circean cup ; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assumed, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Called to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander...
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The poetical works of William Cowper. With life of the author

William Cowper - 1864 - 456 pągines
...caution taste the sweet Circean cup ; He that sips often, at last drinks it up. Habits are soon assum'd ; but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. Call'd to the temple of impure delight, He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander...
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Christian manliness, by the author of 'Christian home life'.

S S. Pugh - 1867 - 244 pągines
...but of our inmost thoughts, of our modes of thinking and feeling, that — "Habits are soon acquired, but when we strive To strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive. " And many a man pays the penalty, in after years, of a youth spent in the indulgence of the appetites,...
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