“Bearing bravely the evils that beset us, doing cheerfully the duties that are near, trusting in God, guided by Christ, fear shall not confound us in the way, and death shall find us ready.”

—  Henry Giles

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 118.

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