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We have evidently tapped a level of new energy, masked until then by the fatigue-obstacle usually obeyed.

The normal opener of deeper and deeper levels of energy is the will.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Honesty, capacity, and industry are nowhere more indispensable than in public employment.

Nature does not give us our livelihood gratis; we must win it by toil of some sort or degree.

All other work but this is worthless; it is slaves’ work—mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil.

But a man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body.

Thus worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill.

Throw away, in the first place, all ambition beyond that of doing the day's work well.

Take no thought for the morrow. Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Let the day's work suffice; live for it, regardless of what the future has in store, believing that to-morrow should take thought for the things of itself.