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The responsibilities assumed will oppress and grieve you sometimes, that is inevitable; they will not less surely gladden your heart in its hour of heaviness by the remembrance that you have gladdened others, that you have achieved something in your day, that you have fulfilled your part in the great scheme divine, which allots to every created being a separate share of labor, of responsibility, of rest, of reward.