“Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.”

—  Richard Salter Storrs

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 483.

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American Congregational clergyman 1821–1900

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