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There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
-Charles Dickens
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There Is Something In Sickness That Breaks

Charles Dickens
There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
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I will trust him. whatever, wherever i am, i can never be thrown away. if i am in sickness, my sickness may serve him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve him; if i am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve him. my sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. he does nothing in vain.
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