Music at Midnight

Samuel Smiles encouraged his readers to regard duty as life’s highest aim and most rewarding pleasure. To know that in doing one’s duty one is fulfilling the mysterious part given to each one of us by God, is to find meaning to trials that otherwise might seem to have none.

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