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.
WILLIAM COWPERRemorse, 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.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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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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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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