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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
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
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To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny make ourselves do whatever is possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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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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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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Begin where you are work where you are the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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