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“"O pity, great Father of light," then I cried, "Thy creature who fain would not wander from Thee! Lo, humbled in dust, I relinquish my pride; From doubt and from darkness Thou only canst free."”

— James Beattie

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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