While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
WILLIAM COWPERGod 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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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.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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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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Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies… To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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