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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Encouragement People Real
Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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Found Success Years
The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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Biblical Humble Responsibility
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Life Normal Who Cares
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Men Opportunity Strong
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Motivational Often Triumph
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Luck Men Opportunity
It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
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Democracy Doe Progress

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