Excerpt from Henry Augustus Coit, First Rector of Saint Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire

"One lesson, Nature, let me learn of thee,
One lesson which in every wind is blown.
One lesson of two duties kept at one
Though the loud world proclaim their enmity -

Of toil unsever'd from tranquillity,
Of labour, that in lasting fruit outgrows
Far noisier schemes, accomplish'd in repose,
Too great for haste, too high for rivalry.

Yes, while on earth a thousand discords ring,
Man's senseless uproar mingling with his toil,
Still do thy quiet ministers move on,

Their glorious tasks in silence perfecting,
Still working, blaming still our vain turmoil,
Laborers that shall not fail, when man is gone." - Matthew Arnold

Carlyle begins his Life of Sterling by remarking that "a true delineation of the smallest man and his scene of pilgrimage through life is capable of interesting the greatest man."

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