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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service is joy.

— Rabindranath Tagore Disputed

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Compare this verse verse written by Ellen Sturgis Hooper | "I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty."

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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

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