Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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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.
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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.
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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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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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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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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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