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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

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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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Basketball Goal Trying
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
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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Men Self Simplicity
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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Cancer Inferiority Jealousy
The Christmas spirit brings home to us-or should bring home to us-the profound Biblical truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Anything which inspires unselfishness makes for our ennoblement. Christmas does that. I am all for Christmas.
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Biblical Blessed Home
Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Golf Hazard Life
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Easier Good Goodness
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
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
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
Bragging often precedes begging.
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Begging Bragging
Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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Dog Next Your Best Friend
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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Greed Life World

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