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Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.

— Hannah More

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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul.

Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.

Most of the Beatitudes which the Infinite Compassion pronounced have the sorrows of earth for their subject, but the joys of earth for their completion.

In men this blunder still you find,—
All think their little set mankind.

Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.

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