He is the great restorer.

But why not see clearly at once; and not wait in suffering for time's slow movements?
I am a wiser philosopher than you are, Jessie; and try to gain from the present all that it has to give." "Some hearts require a severer discipline than others," said Jessie.
"And mine, I think, is one of them." "All that is sickly sentiment, my dear child! as I have said to you a hundred times.

It is not shadow, but sunshine that your heart wants--not discipline, but consolation--not doubt, but hope.

You are as untrue to yourself as the old anchorites.

These self-inflicted stripes are horrible to think of, for the pain is not salutary, but only increases the morbid states of mind that ever demand new flagellations." "We are differently made, Aunt Phoebe," was the quiet answer.
"No, we are not, but we make ourselves different," replied Mrs.
Loring a little hastily.
"The world would be a very dead-level affair, if we were all made alike," said Jessie, forcing a smile, and assuming a lighter air, in order to lead her aunt's mind away from the thought of her as too painfully disturbed by the announcement of Mr.Dexter's marriage.
And she was successful.