Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity. (Mark Hopkins)

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

Mark Hopkins

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