“God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is appointed to kill pride, reproaches are permitted to destroy ambition.”

—  John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 7.

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