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" Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. "
Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior - Page 249
by Thomas R. Nevin - 2006 - 416 pages
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The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's, 1621-1631: With ..., Volume 3

John Donne, Henry Alford - English poetry - 1839 - 630 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness, if we did ; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys,...
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The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life, Volume 3

John Donne - Sermons, English - 1839 - 628 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness, if we did; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys,...
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The works of John Donne. With a memoir by H. Alford, Volume 3

John Donne - 1839 - 640 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness, if we did ; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current moneys,...
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Devotions, by J. Donne. With two sermons. i. On the decease of lady Danvers ...

John Donne - 1840 - 356 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money,...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Together with Death's Duel

John Donne - Literary Criticism - 1959 - 252 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money,...
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The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne

Poetry - 1981 - 206 pages
...spiritual autobiography in miniature and redef1ne the meaning of affliction. 33 As John Donne declared, "affliction is a treasure, and scarce any Man hath enough of it." 34 The persona of these poems at last comes to see his own afflictions in a positive light, but the...
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Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

John Donne - Diseases - 1987 - 260 pages
...taking upon us the Miserie of our Neighbours. Truly it 1 5 were an excusable covetousnesse if wee did ; for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any Man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a Man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge o(gold, and have none coined into currant Monies,...
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John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers

John Donne - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 324 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current money,...
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Addicted Recovery

Gary Almy, Carol Tharp Almy, Jerry B. Jenkins - Christian life - 1994 - 292 pages
...Paul's, and a preacher to great congregations in London. He wrote: "Affliction is a treasure and scarcely any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction...ripened by it and made fit for God by that affliction. Tribulation is a treasure in the nature of it, but it is not current money in the use of it except...
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John Donne: The Major Works

John Donne - English poetry - 2000 - 532 pages
...in taking upon us the misery of our neighbours. Truly it were an excusable covetousness if we did, for affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath...ripened by it, and made fit for God by that affliction. If a man carry treasure in bullion, or in a wedge of gold, and have none coined into current monies,...
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