To carry this to one extreme, if it falls your lot to be a street-sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, sweep streets as Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, “Here lived a great street-sweeper who swept his job well.” In the words of Douglas Mallock: If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail; If you can’t be the sun, be a star, For it isn’t by size that you win or you fail— Be the best of whatever you are.
