God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPER
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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Great 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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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