“The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 128.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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