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. WASHINGTONThe happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Character is power.
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Success always leaves footprints.
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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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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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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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You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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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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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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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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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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I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
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