Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge 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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Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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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.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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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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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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