Love your craft,
your vocation,
your star,
what you are good for,
what really makes you
one among men,
dedicated to your task
as if on every detail that you think,
every word you speak,
every piece you lay
every hammer blow you strike,
depended the salvation of mankind.
Because it does depend on it, believe me.
If, forgetting your own self,
you do all you can in your work,
you do more than an emperor who governs
his lands by default;
you do more than those who devise universal theories
simply to satisfy their vanity,
you do more than politicians, agitators,
those in power.
You can spurn all of that and putting the world to rights.
The world would take care of itself,
if everyone simply
did their duty with love,
in their own home.
Joan Maragall
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