Anything that inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
B. C. FORBESThe way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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