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
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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All we behold is miracle.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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