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Proverbs 13:12

Hope deferred makes the heart sick: but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Hope. Septuagint, "(the just shows mercy and lends) better is he who begins heartily to assist, than he who promises and leads to hope. For a bad (Grabe substitutes good) desire is a tree of life. " Soul. Protestants, "maketh the heart sick. "(Haydock) The pain increases in proportion to our eager desire. Calvin maintains, that the souls of the blessed are not yet in heaven, but hope: and of course he would establish a sort of purgatory for them. (Haydock)
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