Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
WILLIAM COWPERWould 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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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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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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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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