Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
William Cowper
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- Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
- Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.
- God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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