My sun is now declining apace, and I sometimes long to have my day's work done, and well done, that I might undress, and go to rest with you. Yet I am not at all weary—I love my Master, and love his service—but alas, how little have I done! And that little, how full of defects and hateful appendages! Insomuch, that I feel ashamed to die, because I have done no more, nor better for him. Thanks be to God, who has, at infinite expence, provided a cover for all defects, and supply of all the necessities of the most unworthy and ill deserving.
Eleazar Wheelock — Letter to Mr. Samuel Savage, Dartmouth College, October 24, 1775, in David M'Clure and Elijah Parish, Memoirs of the Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, D.D., Founder and President of Dartmouth College and Moor's Charity School (Newburyport: Edward Little & Co., 1811), Appendix, p. 321
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