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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality
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All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it.
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There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted.
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To ask to see some fruit of our endeavour is but a transcendental way of serving for reward; and what we take to be contempt of self is only greed of hire.
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It never seems to them that they have served enough; they have a fine impatience of their virtues.