What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPERReasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
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Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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I will pray, therefore, for blessings on my friends, even though they cease to be so, and upon my enemies, though they continue such.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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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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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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