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.
B. C. FORBESWe must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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If the United States is to produce a nation of investors-as we must if we are to gain financial world-leadership-it is imperative that boards of directors be so constituted as to adequately represent the interests and inspire the complete confidence of investors of moderate substance.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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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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