Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above … - Robert Baden-Powell

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I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

Robert Baden-Powell

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

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Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best

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No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

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