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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.

William Cowper

And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
WILLIAM COWPER

Cloud Courage Saint Head Much Shall
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Distribute Hire Nurse Sick Sleep Snoring Sweetly Watch
The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
WILLIAM COWPER

Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.
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Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ease Mean Modesty Please Press Remember Still
I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Humanity Journey Music Reach Speech Sweet
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
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational Nature Show Suppose Thing
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
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Book Seldom Spell
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
WILLIAM COWPER

Alone Land Path Sadness Sorrow Unknown
What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
WILLIAM COWPER

Anniversary Delightful Friendship Life Love Marriage Wife
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
WILLIAM COWPER

Lodge Solitude Some Successful War Wilderness
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flow’r. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.
WILLIAM COWPER

Bitter Bud God Interpreter Olan Sweet Taste Unbelief Vain Will
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
WILLIAM COWPER

Absence Death Despair Frustrate Love Miss Missing Severer
No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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Acceptance Found Thorns Traveler

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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