Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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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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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self- denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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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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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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