It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
B. C. FORBESHe best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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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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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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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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Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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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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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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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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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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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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