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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
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Advice People Thinking
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts.
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Believe Heart Heaven Ourselves Reach Religious
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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Alive Death Inspirational Life Serious Yourself
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
What we call God’s justice is only man’s idea of what he would do if he were God.
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Call God Himself Ideas Justice Man
There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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Ability Rare Recognition Wisdom
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
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Experience Failure Man
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Fast Interrupt Man Move Oneself World
Men are only as great as they are kind.
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Compassionate Greatness Kindness Man
The reward of a good deed is in having done it.
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Action Complete Goodness Reward
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.
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Avoid Criticism
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
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Happiness Health Need Wealth Yourself
Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.
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Act Generosity Mean
Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
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Accomplishment Beginning Care Day Morning Start
If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.
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Better Change Religion Yourself
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Achievement Art Character Genius Infinity Man Pain Success

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