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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time....
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the ...
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Great ideas originate in the muscles....
To have a great idea, have a lot of them....
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense....
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil....
The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around....
Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The sc...

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No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death....
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody....
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast....
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grap...
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them....
To seek the highest good is to live well....
The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Hea...
He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good....
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good....
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another....