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Quotation from The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson by Izaak Walton
“Lord, abate my great affliction, or increase my patience: but Lord, I repine not”
The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Herbert (Project Gutenberg #13139 (Cassell's National Library, 1898))
Herbert's prayer in the sharpest fits of the ague and supposed consumption he suffered about 1629.
Citation: "Lord, abate my great affliction, or increase my patience: but Lord, I repine not" — Izaak Walton, The Lives of Richard Hooker, George Herbert and Robert Sanderson, Life of Herbert (Project Gutenberg #13139 (Cassell's National Library, 1898)). (id walton-lives-q4)
Portrait: Izaak Walton, Jacob Huysmans, Public domain.
