"Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them."

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There is a great deal too much in the world, of the "heavenly-mindedness" which expends itself in the contemplation of the joys of paradise, which performs no duty which it can shirk, and whose constant prayer is to be lifted in some overwhelming flood of Divine grace, and be carried, amidst the admiration of men and the jubilance of angels, to the very throne of God.

— Henry Clay Trumbull