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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

Booker T. Washington

Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
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
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
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
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
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Enough Start Yourself
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Character Men Skill
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Character Hands Heart
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
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.
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Exercise Important Law
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor

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