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Failure in any good cause is, however, honourable, whilst success in any bad cause is merely infamous.
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What is done in business must be well done; for it is better to accomplish perfectly a small amount of work, than to half-do ten times as much.
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A man must have the courage to be himself, and not the shadow or the echo of another.
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A man's life is to be measured by what he does in it, and what he feels in it.
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Every man's first duty is, to improve, to educate, and elevate himself--helping forward his brethren at the same time by all reasonable methods.
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There is a dignity in the very effort to save with a worthy purpose, even though the attempt should not be crowned with eventual success.