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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONNo 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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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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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.
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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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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No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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