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Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have.
Approximate author period: c. 1697 AD · renaissance
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- Daniel Defoe
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- Approximate author period: c. 1697 AD · renaissance
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