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Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast.

Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Royal Path of Life by T.L. Haynes and L.W. Yeghi, published in 1882.

There is dignity in labor, in toil of the hand as well as toil of the head, in toil to provide for the bodily wants of an individual life,

as well as in toil to promote some enterprise of worldwide fame.

All labor that tends to supply our wants, to increase our happiness, to elevate our nature,

in a word all labor that is honest, is honorable too. Labor clears the forest and drains the swamp,

and makes the wilderness rejoice and blossom

as a rose. Labor drives the plow, scatters the seeds, reaps the harvest, grinds the corn,

and converts it into bread, the staff of life.

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