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George Eliot Quotes: Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
         

Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.


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This page presents the quote "Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.". Author of this quote is George Eliot. This quote is about sorrow, god's will, this life, trouble, heart,.