The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the th… - Hugh Kingsmill

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The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

Hugh Kingsmill

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Hugh Kingsmill Lunn (21 November 1889 – 15 May 1949) was an English biographer, literary critic, fiction-writer and anthologist. As an author he generally used only his first two names.

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