"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."

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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

— David Brainerd