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There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

Samuel Smiles

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
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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Application Finding Karma Luck Man Neglect
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
Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Active Best Help Man Nature Necessary
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
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Bright Darkness Happiness Side
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
Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Children Image Life Mirror Present
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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Greatness Human Persistence Success True Work
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Difficult Greatness Man Reach Struggle Suffering Trial Work

There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.

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