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We read the future by the past.


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If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.



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Let our posterity know that we their ancestors, uncultured and unlearned, amid all trials and temptations, were men of integrity.



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We should let our godliness exhale like th odor of flowers. We should live for the good of our kind, and strive for the salvation of the world.



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Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.



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Strive to make something of yourself, then strive to make the most of yourself.



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Color is nothing, anywhere. Civilized condition differences men, all over the globe.



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Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.



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It is a sad reflection . . . that a sense of responsibility which comes with power is the rarest of things.



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It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.



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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.





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