God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
WILLIAM COWPERKnowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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