To hide one’s talent in the earth is to devote the ability we have received to worldly business.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
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Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754
To hide one’s talent in the earth is to devote the ability we have received to worldly business.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
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