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Booker T. Washington

Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
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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Country Grudge Hurt People
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Himself Hold Man Stay
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
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
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassion Happiness Helping Others
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
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
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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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
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 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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Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting

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