“Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 50.

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“Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.”

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