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- Whimpering never kept a leaking vessel from foundering. Vigorously manning the pumps has. Get busy with your head and hands, not your chin.
- What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that what…
- The victors of the battles of tomorrow will be those who can best harness thought to action. From office boy to statesman, the prizes will…
- It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is the greatest need for having a fixed goal, for having an…
- When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some…
- Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study…
- Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
- He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
- Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study…
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