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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.

Samuel Smiles

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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Affect Better Economy Greatness Industry Law Right
The healthy spirit of self-help created among working people would, more than any other measure, serve to raise them as a class; and this, not by pulling down others, but by levelling them up to a higher and still advancing standard of religion, intelligence, and virtue.
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Creation Health Intelligence People Religion Spirit Virtue Work
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
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Accomplishment Burden Glory Hard Work Honor
There are many counterfeits of character, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
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Difficult Greatness Man Reach Struggle Suffering Trial Work
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
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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Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.
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Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.
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Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.
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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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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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Any number of depraved units cannot form a great nation.
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Character is itself a fortune.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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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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