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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.

Booker T. Washington

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Application Clarity Communicate
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
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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Help Humanity Life Worth
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity
The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Happiness Less Misery People
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Dying Life Opportunity
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Angel Hate Positive
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Law Progress Stars
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Himself Hold Man Stay

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