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It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

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John Woolman

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.

Broken Heart, Dangers, Desire, Earnestness, Helping, Turned
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The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.

Cry, Distress, Felt, Helping, Peace, Turned

I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Attended, Discipline, Friends, Tailor, Virginia

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Age, Goodness, Leave, Writing, Years

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Dispensations, Divine, Fitted, Humbling, Men, Sometimes

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.

Parent, Time, Times, Used, Winter
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