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The Thoughts, Letters, and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal, translated from the French by O. W. Wight (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), Opuscules, "Prayer to Ask of God the Proper Use of Sickness," section II, p. 460

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Thou gavest me health to serve thee, and I made a profane use of it. Thou sendest me sickness now to correct me; suffer not that I use it to irritate thee by my impatience. I made a bad use of my health, and thou hast ju…

Blaise Pascal · The Thoughts, Letters, and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal, translated from the French by O. W. Wight (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1890), Opuscules, "Prayer to Ask of God the Proper Use of Sickness," section II, p. 460
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