I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart.
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Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent. FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools. FRANCIS BACON It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. FRANCIS BEAUMONT Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ... FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ... FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co... FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. FRANCIS BACON Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun... FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. FRANCIS BACON Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed... FRANCIS BACON The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands. FRANCIS BACON The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were. FRANCIS QUARLES Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou... FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou... FRANCIS BACON The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. FRANCIS BEAUMONT I hold every man a debtor to his profession. FRANCIS BACON He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ... FRANCIS BACON Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. FRANCIS BACON All colors will agree in the dark. FRANCIS BACON Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far... FRANCIS BACON It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow... FRANCIS BACON It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. FRANCIS BACON In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi... FRANCIS BACON Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,... FRANCIS BACON