Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

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There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

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