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Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

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Jeremy Taylor
Age: 53 †
Born: 1613
Born: August 15
Died: 1667
Died: August 13
Author
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Evil
Sends
Enjoy
Evils
Born
Blessings
Yesterday
Bear
Blessing
Sweetly
Bears
Patiently
Dead
Morrow

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