The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something. (Edward Payson)

The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something.

Edward Payson

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