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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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Provide Something Use
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
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Anger God Plato
A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Accomplish Appreciation Often Can
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.
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Democracy Doe Progress
Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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Dessert First Meat Positive
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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Joy Real Sorrow
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
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
Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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Decision Judgement Perfect
There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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Credit Firsts Satisfaction
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
Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Children Fate Inspirational
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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Basketball Inspirational Jobs
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Cheat Cheating Deception
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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Pigs Prayer Praying

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