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Hannah More: We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to…

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

In today’s wordsWe tend to mistake our calling, looking far afield for chances to practice great and rare virtues while stepping over the ordinary ones right in our path.

Hannah MoreCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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