God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERWho loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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,
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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