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No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
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Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor’s good.
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Then they cry to Yahweh in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.
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He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.
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For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
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Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.
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Not from space must I seek my dignity, but from the ruling of my thought.
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When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
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Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased.
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These difficulties accumulate and produce a friction which no man can imagine exactly who has not seen War
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! he is his own exclusive object.
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From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
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The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.
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Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness.
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Supposing, then, each separate misfortune to occasion a separate additional grief, the whole would be too great to be supportable.
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Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.
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This trial comes at a moment when man's power to achieve good or to inflict evil surpasses the brightest hopes and the sharpest fears of all ages.
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The affectionate heart of my aunt, Catherine Porten, bewailed a sister and a friend; but my poor father was inconsolable, and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or his reason.
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It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are.
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Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man.
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Men are disturbed not by the things which happen, but by the opinions about the things
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Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life
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My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
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Human effort is not futile, but man fights against the giant forces of Nature in a spirit of humility.
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The task now was to secure the safety of the party, and to that I must bend my energies and mental power and apply every bit of knowledge that experience of the Antarctic had given me.