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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTONIn 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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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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If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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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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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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Character is power.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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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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No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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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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Years ago I resolved that because I had no ancestry myself I would leave a record of which my children would be proud, and which might encourage them to still higher effort
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