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May 15


The Largeness of Duty

 

Duty is always too great for earnest souls. No one can do all that he knows he ought to do or that he wants to do. When we have done our duty, however, day by day, faithfully and earnestly, according to the light and the wisdom given to us at the time, it ought not to cause us regret afterward if it appear that we might have done it with more wisdom or with greater skill. We cannot get the benefits of experience until we have had the experience. We cannot have manhood's ripe wisdom in the days of our youth. We can always see when a day is done how we might have lived it better. We should bring to every hour's work our finest skill, our best wisdom, our purest strength, and then feel no regret even if it does not seem well done. Perfection is ever an unreached goal in this life. Duty is always too large for us to do more than a fragment of it.

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