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No. 71.

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Sac. [Sacramento] City Sept. 29 - 1850
" " [Sac. City] Nov. 28 - 1852

Ps. [Psalm] 132:4-5. [centered]

"I will not give sleep to mine eyes
nor slumber to mine eyelids,
Until I find out a place for
the Lord, an habitation for the
mighty God of Jacob."

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To have lived & done nothing
is justly a reproach.

That is a weary waste of existence
over which the eye wandering back
can find nought [naught] to rest upon, or to
afford relief.

Cheerless & uncheering breathes he
who has managed to exist, to no
purpose – & to live without doing anything
– & to be – without being anything.