Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) is well known for her novels about English mores and manners but also wrote three prayers that echo the form and style of the Book of Common Prayer. Although they are intended to be evening prayers, I think that the fragment quoted below helps to set a good tone for the coming day.

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Teach us, Almighty Father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes, and earnestly strive to make a better use of what Thy goodness may yet bestow on us, than we have done of the time past.

 

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