"In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this."

Purpose, Sun, Effort, Work, Nature

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"In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this."

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"Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through."

A.J. Darkholme, American Author

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"The purpose of population is not ultimately peopling earth. It is to fill heaven."

Graham Leonard, British Clergyman

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"Fulfilling your special calling brings the greatest happiness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"God has a need one that only mankind can fulfil."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"If a man hasn't found something he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

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"The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

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"God has a specific plan for you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

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"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."

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"I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness."

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"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

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"Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances."

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"A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor."

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"The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it."

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