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Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.

Benjamin Jowett

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
BENJAMIN JOWETT

Business Life Positive
Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Achievement Experience Science
All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Compromise Effort Language
Give the clergy your sympathy; don’t give them anything else.
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Anything Give Clergy Giving
Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.
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Energy Grace Real
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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Educational May Men
If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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Afternoon College Scary
Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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Bears Classical Plato Play
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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Book Men Reading
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
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Beautiful Life Work
It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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Important Pushing World
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
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Life Men Mistake Young
I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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Future Past Peace Want
We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
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Action Distinctive Justice Kindness
It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
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Affection Divine Electricity Energy Human Kind Shore
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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Believe Children Dear God

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