Quote#Death
I have certainly experienced severe trials, and some hard…
Quote byElizabeth Willing Powel · 1743–1830
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English (original)
I have certainly experienced severe trials, and some hard dispensations of Providence … To travel with some dignity, innocence, and usefulness, down the Road which leads from the Morning of Youth to the Night of the Grave, is perhaps as much as we can flatter ourselves with accomplishing.
— Elizabeth Willing Powel
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Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.
