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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

William Cowper

Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Blind God Interpreter Make Mysterious Vain Ways Work
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
WILLIAM COWPER

Beach God Moving Mysterious Perform Wonder
What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
WILLIAM COWPER

Acknowledge Admire Advance May Other Praise Worth
[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cat Describe Fambol Incredible Kitten
The still small voice is wanted.
WILLIAM COWPER

Still Voice Want Wanted
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
WILLIAM COWPER

Innocence Innocent Pillow Seldom Uncomfortable
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Land Path Sadness Sorrow Unknown
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
WILLIAM COWPER

Feet Make Prayer Promise Sweet Trial
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER

Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affection Black Dwell Skin White
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alarm Face House Sage Seen Solitude
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
WILLIAM COWPER

Begin Church Leprosy Nation Perish Sin
England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
WILLIAM COWPER

Country Fault Love May Mind Still
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
WILLIAM COWPER

Attachment Home Known Life Place Race Start
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Doctrine Hand Heart Life Man Pure Venerate

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