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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
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.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
Whatever is, is in its causes just.
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
[Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]
God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.
[Fr., Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue.]
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the read more
God made bees, and bees made honey,
God made man, and man made money,
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;
So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
- transcribed by James Henry Dixon,
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportion'd strength.
Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportion'd strength.
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his read more
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive;
He guides me and the bird
In his good time.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
