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Ordinary Duties

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1858

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 13, No. 2.

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Ordinary Duties

By Hannah More

We are apt to mistake our vocation in looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones which lie directly in the road before us. When we read, we fancy we could be martyrs; and when we come to act, we cannot bear a provoking word.