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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Booker T. Washington

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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Helpful Humanity Inspirational Life
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
Success always leaves footprints.
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Country Footprint People Success
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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