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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.

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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
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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Gains Practice Virtue
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Journey Men Return
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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Inspirational Motivational Opportunity
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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Hands Justice Men
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Enthusiastically Lady Luck
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one’s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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Fun Leadership Sports
To make headway, improve your head.
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Habit Headway Make Work
The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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Enthusiasm Fellows Work
If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Today Tomorrow Worry
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 incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
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Adventure Destiny Sports
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don’t put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.
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Generosity Joy Selfishness

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