At some point, even the greatest misery begins to fade. Life, or what passes for life, plods on in it's own unending weary footsteps, and somehow we plod along with it, if we stay lucky.
The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? _ that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to be sought for _ sought for, as with tears of blood! [-Jemima, chapter 26, pg. 275]
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The temptation is too strong for me. Oh, Lord! where is Thy peace that I believed in, in my childhood? _ that I hear people speaking of now, as if it hushed up the troubles of life, and had not to be sought for _ sought for, as with tears of blood! [-Jemima, chapter 26, pg. 275]
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