It is in our prosperity that we are tested. Men are not fully discovered to themselves till they are tried by fullness of success. We do not believe in fate—a blind, hard thing. Every girl thinks she could keep house better than her mother. Wounds are eloquent orators with a tender-hearted surgeon; expose your wounds to Jesus, and he will bind them up. Blunders are made about men, who should ever be esteemed according to their native worth, and not according to their position and office. He has made
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