The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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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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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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