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The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.

Samuel Smiles

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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Discover Failure Finding Learning Mistake Wisdom
Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Cost Polite
The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.
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Issue Mindset Nation Opinion World
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
Woman is the heart of humanity, its grace, ornament, and solace.
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Grace Heart Humanity Solace Woman
Character is itself a fortune.
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Character Fortune One Liner
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
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
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Achievement Decision Difficult Effort Station
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
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Help Oneself
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
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
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
The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.
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Greatness Ignorance Moral Rule Selfish Slave Vice
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.
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Play Work Worst
Although genius always commands admiration, character most secures respect. The former is more the product of the brain, the latter of heart-power; and in the long run it is the heart that rules in life.
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Admire Character Command Genius Heart Life Respect Secure

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