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An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Booker T. Washington

Do not do that which others can do as well.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Happen Life Other Wells
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
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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Essential Progress Purity Separate
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Long Running World
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
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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Inspirational Inspiring Success
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Education Independence Race
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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Inspirational Work Writing
Men may make laws to hinder and fetter the ballot, but men cannot make laws that will bind or retard the growth of manhood.
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Growth Law Man Stop
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man

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