Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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
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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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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