Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.

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"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love."

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"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger."

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"Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd, leading him to life."

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"There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things."

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