God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERI am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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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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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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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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