“Despise not the day of small things.” “Great oaks from little acorns
grow.”
A boy used to crush flowers to get their color, and painted the
white side of his father’s cottage in Tyrol with all sorts of
pictures, which the mountaineer gazed at as wonderful. He was
the great artist, Titian.
An old painter watched a little fellow who amused himself
making drawing of his pots and brushes, easel and tools, and
said, “That boy will beat me some day.” So he did, for he was
Michelangelo.
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=Small Duties=--See HELPFULNESS.