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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

Booker T. Washington

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hands Ideas Intelligent
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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College Education Errors Man Religion Woman
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
Character is power.
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Character Country People
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
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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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
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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Men Overcoming Want
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
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
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
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Done Quiet Said
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Defense Development Highest

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.

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