more familiar phrases, this time from William Cowper [poems] [and more]
“Variety’s the very spice of life,/ That gives it all its flavour.” —The Task, “The Timepiece”
“I am monarch of all I survey,/ My right there is none to dispute;/ From the centre all round to the sea,/ I am lord of the fowl and the brute.” —”Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk”
“No voice divine the storm allay’d,/ No light propitious shone;/ When, snatch’d from all effectual aid,/ We perish’d, each alone;/ But I beneath a rougher sea,/ And whelmed in deeper gulphs than he.” —”The Castaway”
“God moves in a mysterious way,/ His wonders to perform;/ He plants his footsteps in the sea,/ And rides upon the storm.” —Olney Hymns, “XXXV. Light Shining out of Darkness”
“Absence of occupation is not rest;/ a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.” —”Retirement”
“I seem forsaken and alone,/ I hear the lion roar;/ And every door is shut but one,/ And that is Mercy’s door.” —Olney Hymns, “XXXIII. The Waiting Soul”