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— Stephen Crane

I looked here;

I looked there;

Nowhere could I see my love.

And--this time--

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To make to agree or correspond; to suit one thing to another; to adjust.

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14 KING ALFRED'S

40 lines
Sir Philip Sidney·1554–1586
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f the miseries are true, which we long ago discoursedabout, that the wicked should have in this world, then is itevident that those miseries are infinite which are eternalThen said I : That is wonderful which thou sayest, and verydifl&cult to be understood by foolish men. But I neverthe-less perceive that it appertains well enough to the discoursewhich we were before holding. Then said he: I am notnow speaking to foolish men, but am speaking to those whodesire to understand wisdom ; for it is a token of wisdomthat any one is willing to hear and understand it. But ifany of the foolish doubt any of the reasonings which wehave already uttered in this same book, let him show, if hecan, some one of the arguments which is either false, orinapplicable to the subject about which we are inquiring;or thirdly, let him turn, understand, and believe that weargue rightly. If he will do none of these things, then heknows not what he means. As every artificer considers and marks out his work in hismind before he executes it, and afterward executes it all ;this varying fortune which we call fate, proceeds after hisprovidence and after his counsel, as he intends that it shouldbe. Though it appear to us complicated, partly good, andpartly evil, it is nevertheless to him singly good, because hebrings it all to a good end, and does for good all that whichhe does. Afterward, when it is wrought, we call it fate;before, it was God's providence and his predestination. Hetherefore directs fortune, either through good angels, orthrough the souls of men, or through the life of other crea-tures, or through the stars of heaven, or through the variousdeceits of devils ; sometimes through one of them, sometimesthrough them all. But this is evidently known, that thedivine predestination is simple and unchangeable, and gov-erns everything according to order, and fashions everything.Some things, therefore, in this world are subject to fate,others are not at all subject to it. But fate, and all thethings which are subject to it, are subject to the divine prov-idence. Concerning this, I can mention to thee an example,whereby thou mayest the more clearly understand whichmen are subject to fate, and which are not. All this movingand this changeable creation revolves on the immovable.
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