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Self-reliance can turn a salesman into a merchant; a politician into a statesman; an attorney into a jurist; an unknown youth into a great leader. All are to be tomorrow's big leaders - those who in solitude sit above the clang and dust of time, with the world's secret trembling on their lips.

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Give thy mind to books and libraries, and the literature and lore of the ages will give thee the wisdom of sage and seer.

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Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.

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Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

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Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

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Newell Dwight Hillis

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Born: September 2, 1858
Died: February 25, 1929 (aged 70)
Bio: Newell Dwight Hillis was a Congregationalist minister, writer, and philosopher from Brooklyn. He served as pastor of the historic Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, and he oversaw the completion of the last major renovation of the church.
Known for:
  1. Great Books as Life Teachers (1899)
  2. Man's Value to Society (1896)
  3. The blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon (1918)
  4. The Battle of Principles (1912)

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