The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
WILLIAM COWPERGreat offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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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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Still ending, and beginning still.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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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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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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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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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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