The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
SAMUEL SMILESEnthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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He who labours not, cannot enjoy the reward of labour.
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The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.
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Woman, above all other educators, educates humanly. Man is the brain, but woman is the heart, of humanity.
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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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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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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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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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The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Men cannot be raised in masses as the mountains were in he early geological states of the world. They must be dealt with as units; for it is only by the elevation of individuals that the elevation of the masses can be effectively secured.
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Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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