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What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

H. P. Liddon

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are: and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

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About H. P. Liddon

Henry Parry Liddon (1829–1890), usually cited as H. P. Liddon, was an English theologian. From 1870 to 1882, he was Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford.