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— Florence Scovel Shinn"You may think that all your happiness depends upon obtaining one particular thing in life; later on, you praise the Lord that you didn't get it."
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My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
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