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“Yet God hath not only granted these faculties, by which we may bear every event without being depressed or broken by it, but like a good prince and a true father, hath placed their exercise above restraint, compulsion, or hindrance, and wholly without our own control.”
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- Source:
- Discourses. Chap. vi.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 2afb8b7ed70066cd1007024c1377854762aa28832e38c46631e37f03eb705279
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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