Simon Patrick quotes
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“Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.”
-- Simon PatrickSource : Simon Patrick (1858). “The works of Symon Patrick: including his autobiography”, p.633
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“Peace is the proper result of the Christian temper. It is the great kindness which our religion doth us, that it brings us to a settledness of mind, and a consistency within ourselves.”
-- Simon PatrickSource : Simon Patrick (1848). “The Heart's Ease, Or, A Remedy Against All Troubles: A Consolatory Discourse, Particularly Directed to Those who Have Lost Their Friends and Dear Relations : to which is Added Two Papers Printed in the Time of the Plague, 1665”, p.3
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“If better were within, better would come out.”
-- Simon PatrickSource : Simon Patrick (1858). “The Works of Symon Patrick: Including His Autobiography”, p.334
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“It is distrust of God to be troubled about what is to come; impatience against God to be troubled with what is present; and anger at God to be troubled for what is past.”
-- Simon PatrickSource : Simon Patrick (1858). “The works of Symon Patrick: including his autobiography”, p.507
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Source : Source: www.slate.com
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”
Source : B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press
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