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

Samuel Smiles

Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Greatness Nation
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Attention Industry Man Old Perseverance Possession Travel Understand Wisdom
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Age Greatness Man Mindset Nation
Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.
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Accomplishment Oneself Person Power Time
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors’ minds ages ago.
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Age Author Greatness Mindset Time
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
Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
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Difficult Invention Mom Necessary School
Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Butterfly Color Learning Service Study
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Article Character Difficult Mistake
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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Discover Himself Mistake
Purposes, like eggs, unless they be hatched into action, will run into rottenness.
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Action Egg Purpose Run
The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
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Greatness Lesson Life Man Noble Record
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value

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