“Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of holiness.”

— William Morley Punshon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 313.

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English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

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