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Work and its Secret

by Gyanvitaranam

   “ No man is born into this world whose work is not born with him; there is always work and tools too to work with, for those who will.”—James Russell Lowell. No one can plead lack of work. One may be poor and unemployed. But one can always find some work that suits him if he wills and looks for it sincerely. Or else there is risk from the devil, as they say, ‘an idle man’s brain is a devil’s workshop.’ “If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, go out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures.

   Sweep streets like Beethoven composed music. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”—Martin Luther King, Jr. That is dignity of labour. One should do whatever work one can do, if he cannot pick and choose the kind of work he wants....

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