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• Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.
• It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example…
• Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.
• With will one can do anything.
• Enthusiasm..the sustaining power of all great action
• It is energy - the central element of which is will - that produces the miracle that is enthusiasm in all ages.…
• Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
• Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing…
• Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the…
• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some…
• Opportunities ... fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.

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