1790s, The Age of Reason, Part III (1807)
“Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 220.
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