"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.“

-Richard Cecil

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"Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes."

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