What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
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To Arthur love is a state, not a process an atmosphere, not a study an assurance, not a hope a fact, not an ideal.
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
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Passion takes no count of time peril marks no hours or minutes wrong makes its own calendar and misery has solar systems peculiar to itself.
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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