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The very thing which is now the cause of thy great grief ought to have brought thee tranquillity.

This only will I say, that the most crushing of misfortune's burdens is, that as soon as a charge is fastened upon the unhappy, they are believed to have deserved their sufferings.

A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.

It is at the bottom of life we must begin, and not at the top. Nor should we permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunities.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.

If we would be great, and good, and useful, we must pay the price. And remember that when we get down to the fundamental principles of truth, nature draws no colour line.

The men you see spending most of their time looking for higher and more lucrative positions are, nine times out of ten, men who have made worthless failures in other places.

You will constantly be surprised to find how little you really know about your work, and how much more somebody else knows about it than you do.

I want you to make up your minds that you are going to be more nearly perfect, are going to put more manly and womanly strength into the preparation of your lessons each day, that you may be more useful.

There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.

The point is, that we want to be constantly on the lookout for ways of improving whatever work we are engaged in, whether that work be milking cows or doing something else.

No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.

Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better.

Cast down your bucket where you are.

I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.

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.

Ever since then I have had no patience with any school for my race in the South which did not teach its students the dignity of labour.

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

From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life had been occupied in some kind of labour; though I think I would now be a more useful man if I had had time for sports.

I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

My experience has been that the time to test a true gentleman is to observe him when he is in contact with individuals of a race that is less fortunate than his own.