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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 24.

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Greatness and Reproach

By Addison

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity : it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.—Addison.