![To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait, becoming, unconsciously, something like thorns, in their anxiety to bear grapes; it being possible for people, in the pursuit of even great ends, to become themselves thin and impoverished in spirit and temper, thus diminishing the sum of perfection in the world, at its very sources.](/assets/img/quote-photos/to-higher-or-lower-ends-they-the-majority-of-mankind-move-too-often-with-somet.jpg)
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