God made the country, and man made the town.

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God made the country, and man made the town.

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Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

WILLIAM COWPER

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Cease Christian Fighting Restrain
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;

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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Feeble Grace Judging Sweet
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Fatal Laid Remorse
A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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Ceaseless Corrosion Divide Know May Temper
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.

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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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Assurance Even Happy Heard Make Petition
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.

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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Another Detect Hunting Sport
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.

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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Begin Church Leprosy Perish
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.

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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Day Every Happier
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.

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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Amarantine Only
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

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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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Both Goes Hand Idlers Useless Watches
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

WILLIAM COWPER

In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Above Buried Flesh Tomb
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Authorship Substitutes
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.

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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Cats Mena Misuse Plan Toy Way
O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Inverted Ruler Winter Year
What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Know Peaceful Poetic Sweet

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