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INDIVIDUALITY IN HOME.
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How careful ought one, then, to be in forming new plans, lest they become a cause of social stoppage or discord!

All men and women should feel that in some manner or other they are bound to stand for some truth or deed; that in some way they help humanity; that they are always to live on the noblest heights of life, with purpose ever in view. It may be a general or a special purpose; but there must be some one motive besides the indefinite desire for indefinite goodness, which shall shape out an individuality. Only those men and women whose life-work is clear before them can afford to lay it by, as the side duties of life spring up for immediate attention. An intense purpose waits its fulfilment, and, in waiting and ripening, nourishes all the little seeds of endeavor, and refreshes the waste places in others' lives. There cannot be individuality without intensity of feeling or conviction. Our modern life demands such a complexity of interests and

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