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... Heaven polishes its jewels with.—Leighton. I never met with a single instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good.—I have never heard of a Christian on his death bed complaining of his afflictions.—A. Proudfit ...
... Heaven polishes its jewels with.—Leighton. I never met with a single instance of adversity which I have not in the end seen was for my good.—I have never heard of a Christian on his death bed complaining of his afflictions.—A. Proudfit ...
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... heaven, and is made evil only by the corruptions of those it was sent to preserve and bless.—Mordaunt. Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.—S. W. Beecher. If there is any ...
... heaven, and is made evil only by the corruptions of those it was sent to preserve and bless.—Mordaunt. Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.—S. W. Beecher. If there is any ...
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... Heaven but tries our virtue lay affliction, and oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.—J. Brown. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.—Burgh ...
... Heaven but tries our virtue lay affliction, and oft the cloud that wraps the present hour serves but to brighten all our future days.—J. Brown. If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.—Burgh ...
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... heaven's distant lamps. —Longfellow. It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.—Mackenzie. The gem cannot be polishedwithout friction, nor man perfected without trials.—Chinese Proverb ...
... heaven's distant lamps. —Longfellow. It is from the remembrance of joys we have lost that the arrows of affliction are pointed.—Mackenzie. The gem cannot be polishedwithout friction, nor man perfected without trials.—Chinese Proverb ...
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... heaven.—E. H. Chapin. There are three classes into which all the women past seventy years of age I have ever known, were divided: that dear old soul; that old woman; that old witch.—Coleridge. That which is called dotage, is not the ...
... heaven.—E. H. Chapin. There are three classes into which all the women past seventy years of age I have ever known, were divided: that dear old soul; that old woman; that old witch.—Coleridge. That which is called dotage, is not the ...
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