Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

William Cowper

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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Address Anxious Become Feed Gesture Grace Guilt Impressed Messenger Much Tender
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Creep Exactly Sort
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Ceremony Fighting
An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Both Goes Hand Idlers Useless Watches
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.

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Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Pass Swift Unsound Wing
There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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Poetic
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Frustrate Miss Severer
Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.

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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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Interpreter Make Mysterious Ways
Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.

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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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Much Tire Tries
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.

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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Religious Universal
In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.

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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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Above Buried Flesh Tomb
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Name
Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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Fearful Saint Take
Some people are more nice than wise.

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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nice Some
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Found Thorns Traveler

Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.

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