I 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.
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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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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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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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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