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Yet let not such vices of temperament be too severely judged! For to thee were given man's two most persuasive tempters, physical and moral, Health and Power! Thy talents, such as they were, and they were the talents of a man of the world, misled rather than guided thee, for they gave thy mind that demi-philosophy, that indifference to exalted motives, which is generally found in a clever rake.
If thou didst not improve thy native village and thy various homes with a solid, a lofty, and a noble taste, thou didst nevertheless very singularly improve. And thy posterity, in avoiding the faults of thy masonry, will be grateful for the effects of thy ambition. The same demi-philosophy which influenced thee in private life exercised a far benigner and happier power over thee in public.
If thou didst not improve thy native village and thy various homes with a solid, a lofty, and a noble taste, thou didst nevertheless very singularly improve. And thy posterity, in avoiding the faults of thy masonry, will be grateful for the effects of thy ambition. The same demi-philosophy which influenced thee in private life exercised a far benigner and happier power over thee in public.
Yet let not such vices of temperament be too severely judged! For to thee were given man's two most persuasive tempters, physical and moral, Health and Power! Thy talents, such as they were, and they were the talents of a man of the world, misled rather than guided thee, for they gave thy mind that demi-philosophy, that indifference to exalted motives, which is generally found in a clever rake.
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