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Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
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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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.
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Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
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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 germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
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Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.
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