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ON AFFLICTION:
"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue." --Burton
"The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction!" --Spurgeon
"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish!" --Mallet
"Heaven but tries our virtue by 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 twice, listen at once to what it teaches!" --Burgh
"Affliction is not sent in vain from the good God Who chastens all He loves." --Southey
"Ah!, if you only knew the peace there is in accepted sorrow!" --Madam Guyon
"In acceptance lieth peace!" --Amy Carmichael
"It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition." --Colton
"Tears are often the telescopes by which we see far into Heaven!" --H.W.Beecher
"Affliction comes to us all not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us, as the night refreshes the day;
"not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand fold." --H.W.Beecher
"By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us!
"When He makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go!" --Powell
"No Christian but has his Gethsemane; but every praying Christian will find there is no Gethsemane without its Angel!" --T. Binney
"The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the sun." --Richter
"How fast we learn in a day of sorrow! Scripture shines out in new effulgence; every verse seems to contain a sunbeam,
"every promise stands out in illuminated splendor; things hard to be understood become in a moment plain!" --H.Bonar
"Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces!
"Sanctified afflictions (those shared with Christ) are spiritual promotions!" --M.Henry
"The good are better-made by ill, as odors crushed are sweeter still." --Rogers
"The soil moist with tears best feeds the seeds of truth!" --T.T.Munger
"Never was there a man of deep piety who has not been brought into extremities;
"... who has not been put into the fire;
"... who has not been taught to say, 'tho He slay me, yet will I trust Him!'" --Cecil
("What?? Shall we receive good at God's hand, and not also (from Him) receive evil?!" Job 2:10)
"As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it!" --Spurgeon
""These pains and troubles here are like the type which the printers set; as they look now, we have to read them backwards, and they seem to have no sense or meaning in them; but up yonder, when the Lord prints us off in the Life to come, we shall find they make brave reading!" --Martin Luther (from his sickbed)
ON BEAUTY:
"Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature, and Ovid, that it was a favor bestowed by the 'gods'.
The fountain of beauty is the heart. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associated with it, it is the soul's purgatory. - It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace!"
...Quarles, Francis [1592-1644], An English author.
ON THE BIBLE:
(Found in the flyleaf of my grandfather's worn-out Bible...)
"This Book'll keep ya from the world - and the world'll keep ya from this Book!"
"Bad men or devils would not have written the Bible, for it condemns them and their works; good men or Angels could not have written it, for in saying it was from God when it was but their own invention, they would have been guilty of a falshood, and thus could not have been good. The only remaining Being Who could have written it is God - its Real Author!
"The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying!" --Flavel
"The longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the Spirit of it, the more you will get into the Spirit of Christ!" --Romaine
"The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes into conflict but it is there!
"It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life." --Theodore Parker
"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter.
"It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!" --Locke
"So great is my veneration for the Bible, that the earlier my children begin to read it the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens to their country and respectable members of society." --J.Q.Adams
"The Gospel (Bible) is not merely a Book - it is a Living Power - a Book surpassing all others! I never omit to read it, and every day with the same pleasure. Nowhere is to be found such a series of beautiful ideas, and admirable moral maxims, which pass before us like the battalions of a celestial army. The soul can never go astray with this Book for its Guide!" --Napoleon, on St. Helena Island.
"I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study -- more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and women are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than on the eternal Principals laid down by God!" --John Wanamaker
"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book, the Bible!" --David Livingstone
"The Holy Bible is not only great, but high-explosive Literature. It works in strange ways. No living man can tell or know how that Book in its journeyings through the world has started an individual soul 10,000 different places into a New Life, a new belief, a new conception and a new faith!" --Stanley Baldwin
"It has been truly said that any translation of the masterpiece (the Bible) must be a failure!" --Dr E.J.Goodspeed
"(Now there's one to chew on - from a mighty man of God! -- God wants to Teach us His Writen Word-Will Personally!)
"The morality of the Bible is - after all - the safety of society!" --F.C.Monfort
(And the lack of it, its demise!)
"That the truths of the Bible have the power of awakening an intense moral feeling in every human being; that they make bad men good, and send a pulse of healthful feeling through all the domestic, civil, and social relations; that they teach men to love right, and hate wrong, and seek each other's welfare as children of a common Parent; that they control the baleful passions of the heart, and thus make men proficient in self-government; and finally that they teach man to aspire after conformity to a Being of infinite Holiness, and fill him with hopes more purifying, exalted, and suited to his nature than any other book the world has ever known -- these are FACTS as incontrovertible as the laws of philosophy, or the demonstrations of mathematics!" --F.Wayland
"The Bible is the only source of all Christian Truth; -- the only rule for the Christian life; -- the only Book that unfolds to us the realities of eternity. There is no Book like the Bible for excellent wisdom and use." --Sir Matthew Hale, [1609-1676], An English Jurist.
"The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity." --Dwight, Timothy [1752-1817], American Clergy.
"We count the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy. I find more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history whatsoever!" --Isaac Newton
"Of the Bible Garibaldi says, 'This is the cannon that will make Italy free!'
"Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and still man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and guide would be gone; the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!" --H.W.Beecher
"They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scripture, would stand out against ANY evidence whatsoever; even that of a messenger sent express from the other world!" --Atterbury
"The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one Volume. The more deeply he works the Mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the Ore!; new Light continually beams from this Source of Heavenly knowledge, to direct the conduct, and illustrate the work of God and the ways of men; and he will at last leave the Work confessing, that the more he studied the Scriptures, the fuller conviction he has of his own ignorance, and of their inestimable value!" --Walter Scott
"One Monarch to obey, one Creed to own; that Monarch God; that Creed His word alone!
"If there is any one fact or doctrine, or command, or promise in the Bible which has produced no practical effect on your temper, or heart, or conduct, be assured you do not truly believe it!" --Payson
"It is impossible to mentally or socially enslave a Bible-reading people!" --Horace Greeley
"I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures!
"The Bible is the Book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read once or twice or thrice through, and then laid aside, but to be read in small portions of one or two chapters everyday, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity." --J.Q.Adams
"The Word of God will stand a thousand readings; and he who has gone over it most frequently is the surest of finding new wonders there." --J.Hamilton
"You never get to the end of Christ's Words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs, into laws, into doctrines, into consolations; but they never pass away, and after all the use that is made of them they are still not exhausted." --A.P.Stanley
"Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the Book widens and deepens with our years!" --Spurgeon
"After reading the philosophies of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific different between their words and Christ's is the difference between and inquiry and a Revelation!" --Joseph Parker
"A man may read the figures on a sundial, but he cannot tell how the day goes unless the sun is shining on it; so we may read the Bible over, but we cannot learn to purpose till the Spirit of God shines upon it and into our hearts!" --T.Watson
(It has been said that 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!'; - so it is that a man reading the Bible without the divine inspiration of the Author Who wrote it is usually misguided. If the Bible was God-Breathed (Inspired), so was man originally (Gn 2:7) - and if God's Word is Alive, as it says it is, then, as the Manna, or Bread from Heaven it is, it must needs be Blessed, Broken and Breathed into man by God alone - or it cannot be truly Digested!)
ON BLASPHEMY:
"All things exult in and acknowledge God - EXCEPT MAN! All obey His slightest command implicitly - except man! All live in beauty - except man! All bow before Him, existing only in Him - except man!
Man was the outlaw, the rebel, the distorted shape that scarred the earth, the voice that silenced the music of eden, the hand that raised up obscenities and blasphemies.
Man was the pariah-dog, the moral leper in this translucent mirror of Heaven. He was the muddier of crystal waters, the despoiler of forests, the murderer of the innocent, the challenger against God.
He was the assassin of the saints and the prophets, for they spoke of what he WOULD NOT HEAR, In the darkness of his spirit!" --Taylor Caldwell [current] American Novelist.
ON BLESSEDNESS:
"Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value!" --H.Moore
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every many has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some!" --Dickens
"Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing!" --Izaak Walton
"There are three requisites to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings:
"a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver; a deep sense of our own unworthiness; and a recollection of the uncertainty of our long possessing them!
"The first will make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate." --Hannah More
"How blessings brighten as they take their flight!" --Young
ON 'COMMON SENSE':
"Nothing Jesus Christ ever said is 'common sense'! Faith arguing with 'common sense' is fanaticism, and 'common sense' arguing with faith is rationalism. (Of what value is a pearl to a pig?) 'Common sense' is of the flesh, and faith is Spiritual. Faith that is not tried is not REAL!" (MUF 10/30)
{What does not require waiting is not faith. What faith does not involve patient endurance? Can there be endurance without suffering? There is nothing of 'common sense' about the cross - and Christ MANDATES every disciple must take up his OWN cross DAILY! Lk 9:23}
"Don't take the part of Job's friends and think you can explain the whole thing!" --(DI)
(the carnal mind hates God's Mysteries!}
"Jesus Christ is a source of deep offense to the educated mind of today!" --(MUF)
"The most devout among us become aesthetic when it comes to our daily cross-bearing; we do not believe God! We enthrone common sense, and we tack the Name of God onto it. We lean to our own understanding instead of trusting God with all our hearts!" --(MUF 6/27)
"Do not deify common sense! Jesus Christ does not work in common-sense ways, but in supernatural Ways. (We limit Christ by using our common sense!)" --(MUF 2/29) All quotes from Oswald Chambers
ON COURAGE:
"Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it!"
...Richter, Jean Paul [1763-1826], A German humorist.
"Without a hurt, the heart is HOLLOW!"
..."The Fantastiks", An American Musical.
""These pains and troubles here are like the type which the printers set; as they look now, we have to read them backwards, and they seem to have no sense or meaning in them; but up yonder, when the Lord prints us off in the Life to come, we shall find they make brave reading!" --Martin Luther (from his sickbed)
ON DEATH:
"Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more!" --Hooker, Herman [d. 1857], An American Clergy
[His last words on his deathbed...] "Best of all, Christ is WITH us!" --Wesley, English Clergy.
"For half a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose and in verse -- history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, satire, ode, and song. I have tried all. But I feel I have not said the thousandth part of whst is in me.
"When I go down to the grave I can say, like many others, 'I have finished my day's work!' But I cannot say, 'I have finished my life.' My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare! It closes on the twilight, it opens on the dawn!" --Victor Hugo
"The truest end of life is to know that life never ends ... death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity!" --William Penn
ON DILIGENCE:
"Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, thou canst not tell nor yet surmise;
"Pass, therefore, not today in vain, for it will never come again!" --Omar Khayyam
"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can!" --Sydney Smith
"Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accpet oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best!" --Harry Emerson Fosdick
ON EVIL:
"All physical evils are so many beacon lights to warn us from vice!"
...Bowen, Francis [1811-1890], An American Philosopher.
"De-Naturing Plutonium would be easier than de-naturing man's evil!"
...Einstein, A German/American Scientist.
ON FAITH:
"What is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?" --Augustine
"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win - by fearing to attempt!" --Shakespear
"Without divine assistance I cannot succeed; with it I cannot fail!" --Abraham Lincoln
ON FORGIVENESS:
"Only Love WITHOUT REASON Forgives sin WITHOUT EXCUSE!"
...Ben Haden, [current], American Clergy.
ON "FREEDOM":
"WORK WILL MAKE YOU FREE!"
...A Sign atop the entry-gate at Auschwitz; a Nazi DEATH camp!
ON FRIENDSHIP:
"Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man."
...Foss, Sam Walter [1858-1911], An American Poet.
ON GOD:
"We know God easily, if we do not constrain to define Him!"
...Joubert, Joseph [1754-1824], A French Moralist.
"Man's mind compared to God's Mind is but an insignificant reflection!"
...Einstein, An German/American Scientist.
ON GOODNESS:
"We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good!"
...Barrow, Washington [1817-1866], An American Editor.
ON GRACE:
[Regarding a beggar's Miraculous Healing] "He asked for "alms"... they gave him legs!"
...Stuart Briscoe, [current] An American Clergy.
ON HATE:
"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire!"
...Simmons, Charles [1798-1856], An American Clergy, Author.
ON HOPE:
"No affliction nor temptation, no guilt nor power of sin, no wounded spirit nor terrified conscience, should induce us to despair of help and comfort from God!"
...Scott, Thomas [1747-1832, Scottish Novelist, Poet.
"There's everything in life but hope!"
...A Line from "A Lion In Winter", An American Film.
ON HUSH:
"Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or freightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm." --Robert Louis Stevenson
ON LOSS:
"Losses are my WORK! - If you're broken, you're BRITTLE!"
...A line from "A Lion In Winter", An American Film.
ON LOVE:
"The greatest pleasure in life is love."
...Temple, Sir William [1628-1699], An English Statesman.
ON MATURITY:
"It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!."
...Corrie Ten Boom, A Dutch, Christian Survivor Of Nazi War Camps And Author.
ON 'MORNING WATCH':
"You wake up in the morning, and lo! - your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours - the most precious of possessions!" --Arnold Bennet
"Lo, here hath been dawning under another blue day; think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?
"Out of eternity this new day is born, into eternity at night it will return.
"Behold it aforetime no eye ever did; so soon it forever from all eyes is hid.
"Here hath been dawning another blue day; think, wilt thou let it slip useless away?" --Thomas Carlyle
ON MYSTERY:
"I fancy there's a mystery in it!"
...A line from "Lion In Winter", And American Film.
"Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!"
...Tryon Edwards, [1809-1894], American Clergy.
ON OVERCOMING:
"I thank God for my handicaps, for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God!" --Helen Keller
(While being taught words for the very first time, and when exposed to the Name "Jesus", Helen Keller exclaimed, "So THAT'S His Name!!")
"There is always another chance. This thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down - but the STAYING down!" --Mary Pickford
ON PATIENCE:
"Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's Will!" --Collier, Jeremy [1650-1726], An English Clergy.
"Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing, God never changes. Who has God wants nothing; God alone suffices!" --Theresa of Avila
"The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide!" --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Patience and fortitude conquer all things!" --Ralph Waldo Emmerson
ON PEACE:
"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remain firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in exemption from suffering!"
...Fenelon, Francis de S. [1651-1715], French ArchBishop.
ON POVERTY:
"Poverty is the wicked man's tempter, the good man's perdition, the proud man's curse, the melancholy man's halter!"
...Bulwar-Lytton, Edward George [1803-1873], An English Novelist.
ON PRAYER:
"Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness!"
...Trench, Richard C. [1807-1886], An English Clergy.
ON RELIGION:
"Love God, and He will Dwell with you. Obey God, and He will Reveal the Truth to you of His deepest Teachings! "
...Robertson, Frederick William [1816-1853], An English Clergy.
"Every Christian OUGHT to light up the countryside for 10 miles 'round!"
...George Fox, Founder of "Quaker-ism"
"Without Christ, we are but "cut-flower" Christians!"
...Ogilvy, Lloyd [current], And American Clergy.
ON REPROOF:
The softest, gentlest rebuke I ever heard, spoken to Pat Robertson on his T.V. show, when he "over-gushed" at some of her Adventures with the Lord! "Oh, well... we mustn't be TOO surprised when the Lord Does Miracles!"
...Corrie Ten Boom, A Dutch, Christian survivor of Nazi War Camps, and Author.
ON SILENCE:
"There are three kinds of silence. Silence from words is good, because inordinate speaking tends to evil. Silence, or rest from desires and passions is still better, because it promotes quietness of spirit. But the best of all is silence from unnecessary and wandering thoughts, because that is essential to internal recollection, and because it lays a foundation for a proper reputation and for silence in other respects."
...Madam Guyon, [1648-1717], French, Christian "Mystic".
ON SIN:
"Two or more without Torah, is sin!."
...An ancient Hebrew, Rabbinical Saying.
ON TIME:
"Time is the chrysalis of eternity!"
...Richter, Jean Paul [1763-1826], German Humorist.
ON TRUTH:
"There is no fit search after Truth which does not, first of all, begin to live the Truth which it Knows!"
...Bushnell, Horace [1802-1876], An American Clergy.
ON WORRY:
"How much have cost us the evils that never happened!"
...Jefferson
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given -- for the morrow, we are told to trust -- it is not our's yet!"
...G. Macdonald
"Anxiety is a word of unbelief or unreasoning dread -- we have no right to allow it. Full faith in God puts it to rest!"
...Bushnell, Horace [1802-1876], An American Clergy.
"An undivided heart which worships God alone, and trusts Him as it should, is raised above anxiety for earthly wants."
...Geikie
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you!"
...Anonymous
"If pleasure is greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true for trouble!"
...Elbert Hubbard
"Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on top of them!"
...T.L.Cuyler
"Care admitted as a guest, soon becomes a master!"
...Bovee
"Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die off with time; the former grow on it!"
...Richter
"They lose the world who buy it with much care!"
...Shakespear
"To cary care to bed, is to sleep with a pack on your back."
...Haliburton
"Only man clogs his tranquility with cares, destroying what is, with thoughts of what might be."
...Dryden
"'Many of our cares,' says Scott, 'are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges.' -- We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses!"
...H.W.Beecher
"Anxious care rests on a basis of heathen worldly-mindedness, and of heathen misunderstanding of the Character of God!"
...A.Maclaren
"He who takes his cares on himself loads himself in vain with an uneasy burden. -- I will cast my cares on God; He has bidden me; they cannot burden Him!"
...Bp. Hall
"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye; and where care lodges sleep will never lie!"
...Shakespear
"Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. -- They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. -- They are Commanded to cast their cares on the Lord; but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened!"
...H.W.Beecher
"Men are born to trouble at first, and are exercised in it all their days. -- There is a cry at the beginning of life and a groan at the end of it." (See Job 3:25,26; 5:7)
...Arnot
"If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock!"
...Solon
"It is a kind and wise arrangement of God that weaves our sorrows into the elements of character; and that all the disappointments, and conflicts, and afflictions of life may, if rightly used, become the means of improvement, and create in us the sinews of strength. -- Trouble is a marvelous mortifier of pride, and an effectual restrainer of self-will. Difficulties string up the energies to loftier effort, and intensity is gained from repression. By sorrow the temper is mellowed and the feeling is refined. When suffering has broken up the soil, and made the furrows soft, there can be implanted the hardy virtues which out-brave the storm. In short, trial is God's glorious alchemy, by which the dross is left in the crucible, the baser metals are transmuted, and the character is enriched with gold!"
...W.M.Punshon
"The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things."
...H.W.Beecher
"Outward attacks and troubles rather fix than unsettle the Christian, as tempests from without only serve to root the oak faster; while an inward canker will gradually rot and decay it!"
...Hannah More
"If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have (truly) commited them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again, like some stone of Sisyphus!"
...C.H.Spurgeon
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came!"
...James A. Garfield
"Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting!"
...Ellen Glasgow
"It is distrust of God, to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God, to be troubled with what is present; and anger (resentment) at God, to be troubled for what is past!"
...Bp. Patrick
"When Anaxagoras was told of the death of his son, he only said, 'I knew he was mortal.' So we in all casualties of life should say, 'I knew my riches were uncertain; that my friend was but a man.' Such considerations would soon pacify us, because all our troubles proceed from their being unexpected."
...Plutarch
"Perhaps when the Light of Heaven shows us clearly the pitfalls and dangers of the earthly road that led to the Heavenly City, our sweetest songs of gratitude will be not for the troubles we have conquered, but for those we have escaped!"
...Barr
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