The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or … - David Brainerd

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Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

David Brainerd

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

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