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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

Orison Swett Marden

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Generosity Harvest Order Production
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Common Effort Greatness Way
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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Life Thinking Yourself
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Failure Himself Measurement
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

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