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O, it is great, and there is no other greatness. To make some work of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier,—more blessed, less accursed,—it is a work for God.
O, it is great, and there is no other greatness. To make some work of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God; to make some human hearts a little wiser, manfuller, happier,—more blessed, less accursed,—it is a work for God.
Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Carlyle
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- Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 248; printed byline: Thomas Carlyle; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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