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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

William Cowper

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPER

Feet Make Prayer Promise Sweet Trial
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
WILLIAM COWPER

Pass Sound Swift Time Unsound Wing
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cloud Courage Saint Head Much Shall
Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
WILLIAM COWPER

Doctrine Grace Language Men Plain Simple Sincere
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Courage Failure Move Moving Mysterious Perform
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER

Glory Guilt Inspirational Principle Selfish Shame War
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
WILLIAM COWPER

Devil God Honey Made Men Pride
I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
WILLIAM COWPER

Doctrine Hand Heart Life Man Pure Venerate
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER

Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
WILLIAM COWPER

Admit Degrees Enslave Judgment Leave Pleasure
Still ending, and beginning still.
WILLIAM COWPER

Beginning End Life Still
What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPER

Acknowledge Admire Advance May Other Praise Worth
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 COWPER

Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
WILLIAM COWPER

Ceremony Fighting Prepare Shadow Truth
Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
WILLIAM COWPER

Daughter Eye Nature Send Sky Truth

Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

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