“God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.”
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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.
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
