Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Still ending, and beginning still.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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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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