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Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

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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
What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Confidence Courage Fear
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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Men People Self
Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. Youthfulness of spirit is the twin brother of optimism… Resist growing up!
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Brother Growing Up Successful
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age. They were so exclusively engrossed in their day to day affairs that they had no time for friend making.
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Business Retirement Success
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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Knowledge Men Wisdom
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Europe Feet Hands
Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Giving Moving Thinking
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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Basketball Goal Trying
The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Failure Integrity 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
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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Men Self Simplicity
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
The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.
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Men Religion Ships
If the deal isn’t good for the other party, it isn’t good for you.
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Deal Good Party

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