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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.

If we have done our best to do, and to be, we can rest in peace.

Lastly, work secures the rich reward of rest, we must rest to be able to work well, and work to be able to enjoy rest.

Nor can any work, however persevering, or any success, however great, exhaust the prizes of life.

We all admit, though we often forget, the marvellous power of perseverance, and yet all Nature, down to Bruce's spider, is continually impressing this lesson on us.

Work indeed, and hard work, if only it is in moderation, is in itself a rich source of happiness.

Time indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life.

Time spent in innocent and rational enjoyments, in healthy games, in social and family intercourse, is well and wisely spent.

Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.

There is a direct pleasure in seeing work grow under one's hands day by day, until at last it is finished.

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges, whom I have left behind in the world, carking and caring; like horses in a mill, drudging on in the same eternal round--and what is it all for?

Does it seem to you so small and worthless a thing to be good and happy?

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.

My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Love the art which you have learned, humble though it be, and in it find your recreation.

Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.

Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing.

The soul should take care of the body, just as a pilgrim on his way to Mecca takes care of his camel.

His capacity for work was prodigious, and when his own work happened to take less than his full time he characteristically found activity in serving a scientist or exercising an animal.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.