An Opportunity to Work
by Lee on March 31, 2009
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
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- Opportunity Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory. – F.W. Faber ...
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