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I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
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It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.
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I remember an hour when I was discouraged and ready to falter. For days I had been pegging away at a task which refused to get itself accomplished.
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There, too, after a fit of temper, I went to find comfort and to hide my hot face in the cool leaves and grass.
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!
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The optimist cannot fall back, cannot falter; for he knows his neighbor will be hindered by his failure to keep in line.