Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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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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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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