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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden
Age: 75 †
Born: 1848
Born: June 11
Died: 1924
Died: March 10
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Medical Writer
Philosopher
Physician Writer
Poet Lawyer
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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.
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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.
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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.
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Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.
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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.
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Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
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One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.
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