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  • There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction.

    sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) (1842). “Waverley novels. (Abbotsford ed.).”, p.227