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I cannot teach you the ten principles of service. But a little child and a thief can show you what they are. From the child you can learn three things: He is merry for no particular reason; never for a moment is he idle; when he needs something, he demands it vigorously. The thief can instruct you in seven things: He does his service by night; if he does not finish what he has set out to do, in one night, he devotes the next night to it; he and those who work with him love one another; he risks his life for small gains; what he takes has so little value for him that he gives it up for a very small coin; he endures blows and hardship, and it matters nothing to him; he likes his trade and would not exchange it for any other.
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Glory is a poison, good to be taken in small doses.
Learn to look with an equal eye upon all beings, seeing the one Self in all.
The heart perceives that which the eye cannot see.
In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.
Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn a haystack as big as a mountain.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the great ennoble it.
Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
One of the saddest experiences which can ever come to a human being is to awaken, gray-haired and wrinkled near the close of an unproductive career, to the fact that all through the years he has been using only a small part of himself!