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I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him.
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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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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
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