Quote#Wisdom
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our…
Quote byHenry Clay Trumbull · 1830–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 197..
English (original)
Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to hear what God would tell us on that very point.
— Henry Clay Trumbull
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