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I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble.
Approximate author period: c. 1924 AD · modern
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- Author or tradition
- Helen Keller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1924 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1880 to 1968; Wikidata Q38203, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38203 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
An author lifetime, approximate period or collection date is not necessarily the date when these words were first written or spoken. - Recorded source
- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 104; printed byline: Helen Keller; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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