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If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.  Sweep…

Earliest known photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken in about 1847 --------------- Abraham Lincoln wrote this letter on December 24, 1848 to his step-brother, John Johnston.  Johnston had written Lincoln that…

---------- By Dorothy Sayers, British writer (1893-1957), Creation or Chaos, 1949, pages 56-57:    The Church’s approach to an intelligent carpenter is usually confined to exhorting him not to be drunk and disorderly…

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry.  Sweep…

     The Angelus by Jean-Francois Millet  (1859)      (...continued)  This isn't all the Bible says about work.  The Bible is a practical book, and when it comes to…

         I frequently visit people in care centers who are near the end of their lives.  Many of the residents just sit all day with nothing to…

Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and author, John Ploughman’s Talks: Plain Advice for Plain People, 1869, Chapter 19      Hard work is the grand secret of success.  Nothing but rags…

     To many people, work is a necessary evil.  The goal in life is to put in only enough time to retire and relax.  But that attitude and that…