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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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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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The bird that flutters least is longest on the wing.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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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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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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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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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize,–the art that baffles time’s tyrannic claim to quench it.
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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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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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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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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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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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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
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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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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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