The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
SAMUEL SMILESThe 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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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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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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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Opportunities fall in the way of every man who is resolved to take advantage of them.
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It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.
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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
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Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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