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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.

William Cowper

Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Daughter Eye Nature Send Sky Truth
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
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Absence Death Despair Frustrate Love Miss Missing Severer
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 Lord People Person Sweet
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Elegant Simplicity Warm
And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Cloud Courage Saint Head Much Shall
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Comes Happiness Only Ourselves Purpose Squandering
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Care Done Lying Most Night Safely Tomorrow Trouble
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Color Enforce Fellow Find Guilty Power Skin Slavery Wrong
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Labor Much Pleasure Tire Tries
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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Friend Grant Loneliness Pas Retreat Solitude Sweet Whisper
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock Spring Tree
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
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Blind God Interpreter Make Mysterious Vain Ways Work
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

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