The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPERDeep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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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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Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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