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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.

William Cowper

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
WILLIAM COWPER

Glory Guilt Inspirational Principle Selfish Shame War
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
WILLIAM COWPER

Affliction Encourage Every Give Great Lot Mercy Place Reconcile
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
WILLIAM COWPER

Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
WILLIAM COWPER

Behind Face Frowning Grace Hide Judge Lord Providence Sense
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER

Absence Death Despair Frustrate Love Miss Missing Severer
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
WILLIAM COWPER

Acceptance Found Thorns Traveler
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
WILLIAM COWPER

Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
WILLIAM COWPER

Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
WILLIAM COWPER

Country Fault Love May Mind Still
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.
WILLIAM COWPER

Both Fifty Litle No Other Purpose View World
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
WILLIAM COWPER

Apealted Blest Blood Chill Each Hear Rude Rudely Supreme Theme Trifling
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Blind God Interpreter Make Mysterious Vain Ways Work
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
WILLIAM COWPER

Book Seldom Spell
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
WILLIAM COWPER

Egg Fatal Laid Pleasure Regret Remorse

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