Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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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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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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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God made the country, and man made the town.
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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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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