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I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.

George Washington Carver

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation – veneer isn’t worth anything.
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
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Age Compassionate Journey Life Soft Strike Strong Sympathy Tolerance Weakness Young Yourself
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
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Eyes Life Mom Nature People Value Young Yourself
Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature’s varied forms.
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When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.
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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
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You can’t teach people anything. You can only draw out.
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I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
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God Limitation Love Myself Nature Talk Thinking
To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
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Beginning God Happiness Learning Relationship Secret Study True Yourself
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life – but there was no one to tell me.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one’s self.
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My purpose alone must be God’s purpose.
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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn’t interest me one single a bit.
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Believe. The promise of God are real. They are as real, as solid, yes infinitely more solid than this table which the materialist so thoroughly believes in. If you would only believe, O ye of little faith.
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