“Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.”

Vol. I, p. 130
Lady Holland's Memoir (1855), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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