Lewis Carroll Three Sunsets and Other Poems
The Path of Roses (1856), concluding lines
Three Sunsets and Other Poems (1898)
“Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 122.
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