Three Things Are Needed

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed:

- they must be fit for it;

- they must not do too much of it;

- and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of other people for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

Wisdom to reflect on from John Ruskin:

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.

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