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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.

Very many people, very many students, who otherwise would succeed, who would go through school creditably, graduating with honours, have failed to succeed because they became discouraged.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is a vast difference between working and being worked.

There is an indescribable something about work with the hands that tends to develop a student's mind.

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

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