Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
SAMUEL SMILESAny number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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With will one can do anything.
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Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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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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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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