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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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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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In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
Booker T. Washington
I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
Booker T. Washington
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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I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington
We don't just borrow words on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
Booker T. Washington
If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
Booker T. Washington
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come
Booker T. Washington
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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