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Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower.

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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

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Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

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When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

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Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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Never promise more than you can perform.

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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

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