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The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own…

Quote byEdward Payson · 1783–1827

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 335..

English (original)

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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