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The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
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Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object.
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
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