“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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