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Results from Poor Man's College:

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
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Horace Bushnell
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
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David Viscott
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
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Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
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Robert Collier
God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.
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Wilberforce
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
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James Goldsmith
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery.
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C. C. Colton
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.
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X. Doudan
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
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