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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 26, 1875

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 46, No. 8.

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Be What Nature Intended

WHATEVER you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. If Providence only intended you to write posies for rings, or mottoes for twelfth cakes, keep to posies and mottoes; a good motto for a twelfth cake is more respectable than a villainous epic poem in twelve books. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.—Sydney Smith.