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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

Booker T. Washington

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Family Inspiration Success
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
Do not do that which others can do as well.
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Happen Life Other Wells
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
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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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Beginning Dignity Glorify Labor Life
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Escape Life People Strong Touch Weakness Yourself
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself

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