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When God would educate a man He compels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that, by knowing all suffering, he may know also the eternal consolation.
When God would educate a man He compels him to learn bitter lessons. He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that, by knowing all suffering, he may know also the eternal consolation.
In print by 1881 AD · industrial
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- Celia Burleigh (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1881 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 183 · printed citation: Celia Burleigh · subject: Necessity
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