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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.

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Work, love, and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

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Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

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There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

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A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

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No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

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Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

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The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

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We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

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One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

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The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

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Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

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Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

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