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Quote by George Eliot
The reward of ones duty is the power to fulfill another. - George

The reward of ones duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot

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But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. – George Eliot

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Experience
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George Eliot
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot

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Things, Little Things
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. – Ghose Aurobindo

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Make your life a mission-not an intermission. – Arnold Glasgow

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