Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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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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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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Success consists of being and doing, not simply accumulating.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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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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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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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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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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