“Prayers born out of murmuring are always dangerous. When, therefore, we are in a discontented mood, let'us take care what we cry for, lest God give it to us, and thereby punish us.”

—  William Mackergo Taylor

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 465.

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