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The man who is too busy to read is never likely to lead.

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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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Men People Self
An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Idea Machines Material Raw
Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Release Vacation Welcome
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
Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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Determination Fate Lying
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
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
A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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Business Driven Order
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 only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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Fall Inspirational Spring
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
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
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Bargaining Satisfaction Yield
Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Complaining Men Opportunity
Golf is an ideal diversion, but a ruinous disease.
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Disease Diversion Golf
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can

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