We know many persons who are always doing a great deal and yet do nothing—fussy people, people to the front in every movement, persons who could set the whole world right, but are not right themselves. Very eminent men are these! Poverty on the back of bereavement is terrible. Lord, lead me to count nothing my treasure but thyself, and then I may defy the thief. A good appearance is a letter of recommendation, even to a plowman. Better far to be morbidly sensitive and condemn one’s self needlessly
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