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.


p. 197. - Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Henry Clay Trumbull Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...