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The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.
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Education Himself Man Order Worth
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.
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Act Genius Power Right Time
Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
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Fools Lover Nature
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
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Growth Improvement
If you want work well done, select a busy man – the other kind has no time.
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Busy Kind Man Time Work
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
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Achievement Art Character Genius Infinity Man Pain Success
Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.
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Cultivation Happiness One Liner
Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.
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Appearance Cloud Man Storm Wisdom
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
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Ability Courage Energy Failure Goal Organization People
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
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Deep Generosity Love
All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
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Charity Power Production Salary
Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.
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Competition Heart Success Work Yourself
God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
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Appearance God Scars Yourself
Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
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Ability Discipline Feeling Yourself
I believe it is possible that I shall make other creeds, and change this one, or add to it, from time to time, as new light may come to me.
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Believe Change Light Myself Possible Time
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do
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Friendship Pay Work

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

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