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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
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
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
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
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
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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Known Sweetest
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
Plan your work – work your plan
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Plan Success Work
No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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Determination Exercise Fighting
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Bigs Idea Trouble
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us.
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