“…to be at home in all lands and all ages; to count Nature as a familiar acquaintance and Art an intimate friend; to gain a standard for the appreciation of other men’s work and the criticism of one’s own; to carry the keys of the world’s library in one’s pocket, and feel its resources behind […]
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Be yourself: cultivate desirable qualities.
Be alert: look for opportunities to express yourself.
Be positive: determine your goal and the route to it.
Be systematic: take one step at a time.
Be persistent: hold to your course.
Be a worker: work your brain more than your body.
Be a student: know your job.
Be fair: treat the other man as you would […]
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”
-Albert Einstein
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To find one’s work in the world and do it honorably, to keep one’s record clean so that nothing clandestine, furtive, surreptitious can ever leap out upon one from ambush and spoil one’s life, to be able, therefore, unafraid to look the world in the face, to live honorably also with one’s own soul because […]
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A builder builded a temple,
He wrought it with grace and skill;
Pillars and groins and arches
All fashioned to work his will.
Men said, as they saw its beauty,
“It shall never know decay;
Great is thy skill, O builder!
Thy fame shall endure for aye.”
A mother builded a temple
With loving and infinite care,
Planning each arch with patience,
Laying each […]
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It’s the steady, constant driving
To the goal for which you’re striving,
Not the speed with which you travel
That will make the victory sure.
It’s the everlasting gaining,
Without whimper or complaining
At the burdens you are bearing,
Or the woes you must endure.
It’s the holding to a purpose
And the never giving in;
It’s the cutting down the distance
By the little that […]
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“To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame; to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine men [and women].” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that […]
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