"The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance."
— Purpose

January 1, 1970

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Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Eliza Gurney (4 September 1864); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7 (1953), p. 535.