Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
WILLIAM COWPERYe fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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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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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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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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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Deep in unfathomable mines Of never failing skill He treasures up his bright designs,
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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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What peaceful hours I once enjoy’d! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
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The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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