What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERI 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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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
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Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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