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There is one place we can bear a boil, and smile—­on the other fellow’s neck.

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Many people possess more than a thousand acres of possibilities, and have about half an acre under cultivation.

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The best way to exterminate mosquitoes would be to start a plan to cultivate them as a money making commodity.

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Stop nagging, twitting, insinuating, suspecting those whose love you wish to hold.  You assassinate love when you ridicule it.

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Temper is the yeast of personality.  No man or woman ever rises in the world without it.  A razor, knife, ax, or writer, actor, minister, without it, isn’t worth a damn in any market.  Never lose your temper, lose all things, but keep your temper.

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When I see people who are great stickers as to form, or attitude, in prayer, they remind me of my old neighbor, Saxby, who fell into Bill Smith’s well.  He said:  “The prayingest prayer I ever said, was in that well standing on my head.”

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Do you know the meanest thing about the worst boy on your street?  I will tell you.  It is the fact that you do not like him, and he knows it.  God never made a mean boy.  Parents have made some, towns have made some, and cities have made a host.

=Lesson Fourth

THE SUPREME LAW OF SUCCESS

Selling power=:  Study out plans.  Approach your customer or the public, with a definite plan.  Here is one of simple power:  Attract the attention, secure the interest, carry the conviction, demand the decision, then in any line of business you will have your order book full.  Selling power is confidence backed up by the will.  Success is ambition and desire driven by the will.  Do you desire success?  How much?  When you desire it as a starving man has hunger for food, you will win.  Want to attain your ambition?  How much?  When your ambition becomes a thirst, a burning consuming thirst, such as the lost traveler has in the blistering sands of the desert, then you will achieve.  What you want is not opportunity, the world is flooded with golden opportunities.  What you want is not a fair chance, chances gleam in your future sky fairer than the endless myriads of stars that encrust with glittering splendor the evening heavens.  What you do want is concentration, confidence, self-reliance, desire, ambition, personal power.