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Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die.

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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

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Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own ...more

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It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate whose fa...more

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived ...more

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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

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To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.

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The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of a...more