Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPERJudge 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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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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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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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He that has seen both sides of fifty has lived to little purpose if he has no other views of the world than he had when he was much younger.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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