“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.”
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Work alone is noble.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.