Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flow

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. – Thomas Carlyle

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One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay “in kind” somewhere else in life. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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