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David said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed, for Yahweh God, even my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you, until all the work for the service of Yahweh’s house is finished.

You hang around a barbershop long enough—sooner or later you will get a haircut.

In spite of failures, cooperative schemes went on, some of the same men appearing in one after another with irrepressible optimism.

Keenly conscious of the social confusion all about us and the hard economic struggle, we at times believed that the very struggle itself might become a source of strength.

It is doubtful whether a person could be a failure while engaged in work which he liked best.

Well, it is something to have got here, and the wind may be our friend to-morrow.

With perseverance, the very odds and ends of time may be worked up into results of the greatest value.

hope, which is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for whoso hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.

Thrift does not require superior courage, nor superior intellect, nor any superhuman virtue.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it.

A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

Most of us may learn to push the barrier farther off, and to live in perfect comfort on much higher levels of power.

The fatigue gets worse up to a certain critical point, when gradually or suddenly it passes away, and we are fresher than before.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be.

Free labour has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

At that institution I got my first taste of what it meant to live a life of unselfishness, my first knowledge of the fact that the happiest individuals are those who do the most to make others useful and happy.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found.

The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism. A vague glimpse even of an Analytical Engine at length opened out, and I pursued with enthusiasm the shadowy vision.

The basic condition of human life is union; the organic social relation, the interchange of functional service, wherein the individual is most advantaged, not by his own exertions for his own goods, but by the exchange of his exertions with the exertions of others for goods produced by them together.

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

The progress of society rests upon the increasing collectivity of human labor.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature: to make beautiful things has more.

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.