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need for any things but work and rest. It is 

 possible at any rate to imagine that the pleasure 

 and the work of a poet or an artist may be so 

 interdependent that one cannot exist without 

 giving a direct impulse to the other, that the 

 feelings for instance of a poet, when heightened 

 by pleasure, lead so continually to efforts to ex- 

 press them, that they themselves seem to be but 

 a motive or preparation for the work of life 

 rather than a thing apart from it. The same 

 may be true of some men of science : there have 

 been men who have seemed to value leisure and 

 energy solely for the sake of observation and 

 research, who have asked for nothing in life 

 except that they should not be interrupted in 

 the pursuit of knowledge. But few people are 

 made entirely like these, and most of us do 

 some work, not from choice, but being either 

 compelled by necessity, or else urged to it by cir- 

 cumstances or some stern inner motive. If work 

 be worthy or noble the greatest satisfaction of 

 life is to be found in doing it well ; the exercise 

 of his highest powers or qualities is the glory of 

 man's being, and the discovery or development of 

 them by use transcends all pleasure. But not all 



