The ubiquity of the Divine presence is the only true support, and I am sometimes astonished how persons, who evidently do not possess that grand source of consolation, keep up their spirits under trials and difficulties. It must be owing to careless tempers and nerves of brass.
Hannah MoreSound economy is a sound understanding brought into action; it is calculation realized; it is the doctrine of proportion reduced to practice; it is foreseeing contingencies, and providing against them.
Hannah MoreAffliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
Hannah MoreNo adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.
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