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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to piece

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. – Richard Cecil

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Gods way of answering the Christians prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. – Richard Cecil

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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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When the will is ready the feet are light. – Proverb

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