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The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.

Samuel Smiles

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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 highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

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  Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.

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  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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  Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

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  The government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflux of the individuals composing it. The government that is ahead of the people will be inevitably dragged down to their level, as the government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up.

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  Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.

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  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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  The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.

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  Commit a child to the care of a worthless, ignorant woman, and no culture in after-life will remedy the evil you have done.

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  The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens.

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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 reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

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  With will one can do anything.

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  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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  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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