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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.

Booker T. Washington

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 Happy Inspirational
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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Law Progress Stars
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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Ancestry Children Effort Higher Leave Proud
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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Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
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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Country Individual People Race World
I early learned that it is a hard matter to convert an individual by abusing him, and that this is more often accomplished by giving credit for all the praiseworthy actions performed than by calling attention alone to all the evil done.
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Attention Evil Giving
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Heart Prejudice Race
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political
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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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public.
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Class Jobs Race
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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Body Heart People
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
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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Civilization Man Race Religion Thinking White
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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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Empowerment Lift Race
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
The circumstances that surround a man’s life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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Circumstance Determination Factor Failure Important Life Man Success Surround
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Convinced Heart Message Mutual Progress
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World

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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