Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.
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