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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: depressed in their company; I have known others whose sense
of duty, dear things, was so strong that they seemed quite
unable to REST, or even to allow their friends to rest; and I
have wondered whether, after all, worriting about one's duty
might not be as bad--as deteriorating to oneself, as distressing
to one's friends--as sinning a good solid sin. No, in this
respect virtues MAY be no better than vices; and to be chained to
a wheelbarrow made of alabaster is no way preferable to being
chained to one of wood. To sacrifice the immortal freedom
of the mind in order to become a prey to self-regarding cares
and anxieties, self-estimating virtues and vices, self-chaining
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