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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

William Cowper

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Feet Make Prayer Promise Sweet Trial
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Absence Inspirational Motivational Proof Suicide
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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Country Fault Love May Mind Still
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Gather Honey Lead Truth Weed Wisdom
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Begin Breathe Sight Spirit Upon World
Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Compassion Dismiss God Heart Men
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
WILLIAM COWPER

Carry Effect Further Get God Honor Impute Key Medicine Recovery Rob Say Well
The still small voice is wanted.
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Still Voice Want Wanted
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Devil God Honey Made Men Pride
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
WILLIAM COWPER

Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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Air Brisk Ear Heart Martial Melt Mind Music Pease Pitch Soul Sound Sympathy
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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Every Mistakes Reasoning Step Tread
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Bitter Bud Flower Sweet Taste
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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Bless Cease Continue Enemies Friend Pray Such
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
WILLIAM COWPER

Color Enforce Fellow Find Guilty Power Skin Slavery Wrong
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
WILLIAM COWPER

Audible Music Soul Sound Sympathy

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