I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
WILLIAM COWPERSatan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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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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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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