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“Murmur not at the ways of Providence.”

“Be equally attentive to every relation into which all-wise Providence may lead you...”

“Since then, our present state, how prosperous so ever, hath no stability, but what depends on the good providence of God, how careful should we be not to harden our hearts against the diseases of our Fellow Creatures, lest He who owns and governs all, should punish our inhumanity deprives us of a stewardship in which we have so unworthily behaved, laugh at our calamity and mock when our fear cometh.”

“Franklin notes that it is by exercising the virtue of charity that most of all recommends us to the Deity and believed that if we take care of the neediest among us, God will take care of us.”

“Tho earthly comforts are taken away I will bit repine, He who gave them has surely a right to limit their duration, and has continued them to me much longer than I deserved....Still I have many blessings left, many comforts to be thankful for and rejoice in. I am not left to mourn as one without hope.”

“...by a firm Belief that a Being of Infinite Wisdom and unbounded Goodness will carve out my portion in tender mercy towards me! Yea tho He slay me I will trust in Him said holy Job. What tho His corrective Hand hath been stretched against me; I will not murmur.

“Remember that national crimes require national punishments and without declaring what punishment awaits this evil, you may venture to assure them that it cannot pass with impunity unless God shall cease to be just or merciful.”

“If in the Old Testament God swears by His holiness, and by the excellency of Jacob that the earth shall tremble and every one mourn that dwells therein for the iniquity of those who oppress the poor and crush the needy.”

“Dependence upon Him, habits of reverence and gratitude, to God and habits of love and compassion to our fellow men and habits of temperance, recollection, and self-government will afford us a real and substantial pleasure. We may then exult in a consciousness of the favor of God and the prospect of everlasting felicity.”

“Abraham Lincoln in 1863 made it an annual National holiday to be celebrated on the last Thursday of November.