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You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands his own plan, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do yourself.

You are never to complain of your birth, your training, your employments, your hardships; never to fancy that you could be something if only you had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands his own plan, and He knows what you want a great deal better than you do yourself.

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Horace Bushnell
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 322; printed byline: H. Bushnell; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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