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title: 'Thornwell’s Counsel to Peck'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-07-20
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-thornwells-counsel-to-peck
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# Thornwell’s Counsel to Peck

“There is nothing like writing to make a man exact. In all seriousness, I would advise you often to use the pen in rendering an account to yourself of the attainments you have made. It has been the mistake of my life that I have written so little. Learn from my experience.” — [**James H. Thornwell**](/authors/james-henley-thornwell), Aug. 24, 1853 Letter to [Thomas E. Peck](/authors/thomas-ephraim-peck) in [Benjamin M. Palmer](/authors/benjamin-morgan-palmer), *The Life and Letters of James Henley Thornwell* (1875), p. 374