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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Buckets Common Way
Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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Agricultural Condition Incomparably Population Sicily
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Country Grudge Hurt People
The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.
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Ability Character Himself Politics Possession Right Time
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Application Clarity Communicate
Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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Country Individual People Race World
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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Angel Hate Positive
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay

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