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I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man’s success.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Here, Sumner urges his audience to prioritize significant values over trivial political ambitions.
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Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
The most distant are not without a present influence on our daily lives.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
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