Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best being pleased by repeated trials, to make ... pure spirits more pure.
The eye begins its avarice
A meditation chastens speech
Some Dyer of a distant tree
Resumes his gaudy industry.
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