evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.76, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.