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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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Feet Make Prayer Promise Sweet Trial
What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Acknowledge Admire Advance May Other Praise Worth
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder
I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Alone Door Every Forsaken Hera Lion Loneliness Mercy One Shut
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Another Detect Hunting Owe Pain Sport
We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Death Die Dust Mightiest Turn Work
To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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Easier Eye Foolish Government Precedent Think Thinking
After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Abundant After Drought Fall Flower Herb Long Rain Rejoice
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Game King Ply Subject War Wise
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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Affliction Encourage Every Give Great Lot Mercy Place Reconcile
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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Doctrine Hand Heart Life Man Pure Venerate
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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Anniversary Delightful Friendship Life Love Marriage Wife
Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Bright Deep Design Fall Mine Skill Treasure Unfathomable
[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Cat Describe Fambol Incredible Kitten
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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Frowned Grace Judge Judging Lord Trust
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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Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Gather Honey Lead Truth Weed Wisdom
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Alive Assume Being Flayed Habit Strive
A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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Creator Made Man Pride Self Worship
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Greatly Pity Rum Slavery Sugar
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Ceremony Fighting Prepare Shadow Truth
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
All we behold is miracle.
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All Behold Miracle
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Danger More never Ourselves Reality Secure Thinking

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