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Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

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Thomas Brooks
Age: 77 †
Born: 1880
Born: July 7
Died: 1958
Died: February 15
Politician
Thurgoland
South Yorkshire
Thomas Judson Brooks
Saints
Affliction
Thrive
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Spring
Externally
Virtue
Internally
Christian
Afflictions
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Afflicted

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Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst he promises honor, and pays with disgrace he promises pleasure, and pays with pain he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises all his payments are made in pure gold.
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