Elizabeth Payson Prentiss Quotes

A Plan Of Life?
... Yet You Would Smile At An Architect Who, Having A Noble Structure To Build, Should Begin To Work On It In A Haphazard Way, Putting In A Brick Here And A Stone There, Weaving In Straws And Sticks If They Come To Hand, And When Asked On What Work He Was Engaged And What Manner Of Building He Intended To Erect, Should Reply He Had No Plan But Thought Something Would Come Of It.

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