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Charles William Eliot [1834-1926] American

Rank: 107
Educator, Poet

Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university.

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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.		101
Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.		102
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.		103
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.		104
You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.		105
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.		106

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