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If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.
Out of the sea
the sun aborning
Not adorned but
all adorning
with his awesome light
of morning
says to read more
Out of the sea
the sun aborning
Not adorned but
all adorning
with his awesome light
of morning
says to you
Come! My Mavoorning!
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and read more
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.
God sendeth cold after clothes.
God sendeth cold after clothes.
Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things
to their proper places.
[Lat., Deus haec fortasse read more
Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things
to their proper places.
[Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna
Reducet in sedem vice.]
To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
[To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by read more
To a close shorne sheepe, God gives wind by measure.
[To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.]
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
[Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
Chance is a nickname for Providence.
[Fr., Le hasard est un sobriquet de la Providence.]
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,
Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so read more
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
