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We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Elizabeth Prentiss
Wise, Soul, Break
Elizabeth Prentiss (1876). “Stepping Heavenward, and Aunt Jane's hero”, p.56
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.