It is in the hour of trial and doubt that men show themselves as they are, laying up for the future weal or woe,--and not afterwards, when all temptation to disloyalty is lost in the assured danger it must encounter, and when all positions have become fixed by events.
Sumner notes that true character is revealed in times of trial, rather than in moments of safety.
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