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• I slept and drempt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was duty.
  I acted and beheld that duty was joy. -- Rabindranath Tagore...
• In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained
  know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she 'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy...
• Life is but a dream.
• The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
  -- Johann von Schille...
• And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man, in their sight.
  ..Then he [the Lord!] said unto me, Lo, I have given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith....
• The best things in life are duty free.
• Captain, life is _not_ a dream.
• Sometimes I think life is all just a pleasant dream.
• Thou shalt eat green eggs and ham--obey thy God, I-am-that-I-am.