Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing --to do just that be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline head of Caesar, or an oration.
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The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.
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Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
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As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points
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Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.
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