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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

B. C. Forbes

The 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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Friendship Loyalty True Friend
Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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Belief Character Honesty
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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Blow Effort Fate
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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Army Selfishness Unhappiness
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
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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Directors Inspire United States
A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Sunny Sunny Afternoon Weather Yield
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Giving Moving Thinking
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
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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Found Success Years
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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Courage Inspirational Perseverance
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
Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Acting Shooting Thinking

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