Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust?" (Charles Kingsley)

Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight, - and I should enjoy that - but why make me sweep the dust?"

Charles Kingsley

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