“Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it—a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 606.

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