Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
WILLIAM COWPERGod moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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