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Our Duty & Powers


Our duty is to be useful, 
not according to our desires but 
according to our powers.
Henri-Frederic Amiel
 
However mean your life is, 
meet it and live it: 
do not shun it and call it hard names.
 Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,
 like sage.
 Do not trouble yourself much 
to get new things,
 whether clothes or friends.
 Things do not change, 
we change. 
Sell your clothes 
and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau




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