Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNever let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
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