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48. With the attractions of odours I am not much troubled. When
absent I do not seek them; when present I do not refuse them; and am
prepared ever to be without them. At any rate thus I appear to
myself; perchance I am deceived. For that also is a lamentable
darkness wherein my capacity that is in me is concealed, so that my
mind, making inquiry into herself concerning her own powers, ventures
not readily to credit herself; because that which is already in it is,
for the most part, concealed, unless experience reveal it. And no
man ought to feel secur. in this life, the whole of which is called a
temptation. that he, who could be made better from worse, may not
also from better be made worse. Our sole hope, our sole confidence,
our sole assured promise, is Thy mercy.
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