But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:
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As in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will never be brought low; so when in adversity, we are ready to think our valley will never be filled up. But to conclude that to-morrow must be as this day, is as absurd as to think that the weather, when either fair or foul, will be always so.