I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Reasoning 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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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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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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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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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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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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