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Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

Samuel Smiles

The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
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Difficult Discover Establishment Greatness Sorrow Thinking
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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Inspirational Life Ourselves
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Attempt Reason
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.
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Generous Library Possession Wealth
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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Pursuit Success Worth
Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Compromise Endurance Government Marriage Patience Repair
The most influential of all the virtues are those which are the most in request for daily use. They wear the best, and last the longest.
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Best Influential Long Virtue
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Focus Short Way
Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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Better Character Charge Hands Worst
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength
Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.
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Cure Domestic Evil Politics Reform
Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation

Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

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