Charles Sumner: “There is nothing of good so vast or beautiful, nothing so distant or…”

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There is nothing of good so vast or beautiful, nothing so distant or seemingly inaccessible, as to fall beyond the reach of these promises.

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Massachusetts

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Sumner expresses the boundless nature of good and the promises that inspire hope.

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Charles Sumner: “There is nothing of good so vast or beautiful, nothing so distant or seemingly inaccessible, as to fall beyond the reach…”