“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.