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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Samuel Smiles

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
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Industry National Progress Selfish
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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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.
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Example teaches better than precept. It is the best modeler of the character of men and women. To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind him.
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Riches do not constitute any claim to distinction. It is only the vulgar who admire riches as riches.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.
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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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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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A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful,” says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.
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Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

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