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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Excuse Manufacture Profitless Thing
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Honesty Inspirational Mind
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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Gains Practice Virtue
Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Sleep Tired Workout
Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Men Patience Reality
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Men People Self
Honesty is the cornerstone of character. The honest man or woman seeks not merely to avoid criminal or illegal acts, but to be scrupulously fair, upright, fearless in both action and expression. Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind.
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Character Honesty Men
How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.
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Important Persistence Race
The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Feelings Hurt
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
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
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy

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