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“Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke He could safely spare; He inflicts it to purify as well as to punish, to caution as well as to cure, to improve as well as to chastise.”

— Hannah More

Source: Three Thousand Selected Quotations from Brilliant Writers — Wikisource

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