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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Art Care Live Love Yourself
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.
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Death Experience Live Myself Opportunity World Worth
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Achievement Himself Man Measurement Position Success True
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Generosity Help Hold Kindness

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

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