Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The de…

Samuel Johnson
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Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion. ✨ Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). Life and Writings, p.321
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