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Meditations X.14
Says the well-schooled and humble heart to Nature that gives and takes back all we have; Give what thou wilt, take back what thou wilt.26 But he says it without any bravado of fortitude, in simple obedience and good will to her.
- 26.Compare Job i. 21.
Job 1:21 has “the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away” (King James).