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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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
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Physician Writer
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New Hampshire
United States
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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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Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
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Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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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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