Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
WILLIAM COWPERHappy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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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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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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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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All we behold is miracle.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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Absence of occupation is not rest.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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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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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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