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Think Of The Ills From Which You Are Exempt, And It Will Aid You To Bear Patiently Those Which Now You May Suffer.

We Are Urgent About The Body; He Is About The Soul. We Call For Present Comforts; He Considers Our Everlasting Rest. And Therefore When He Sends Not The Very Things We Ask, He Hears Us By Sending Greater Than We Can Ask Or Think.

Every Year Of My Life I Grow More Convinced That It Is Wisest And Best To Fix Our Attention On The Beautiful And The Good, And Dwell As Little As Possible On The Evil And The False.

I Could Write Down Twenty Cases Wherein I Wished That God Had Done Otherwise Than He Did, But Which I Now See, If I Had Had My Own Way, Would Have Led To Extensive Mischief.

All Extremes Are Error. The Reverse Of Error Is Not Truth, But Error Still. Truth Lies Between Extremes.