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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance, self-control, diligence, strength of will, content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Charles Kingsley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 94; printed byline: Charles Kingsley; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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