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

Samuel Smiles

Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Time Willing Work
Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
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Life Responsibility Value
Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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Pursuit Success Worth
The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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One Liner Polite Sincere True
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
Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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Man Nation Purity Strength
Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.
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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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Distance Excellence Industrial Object Principle
Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.
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Character Greatness Himself Leadership
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
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
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober

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