Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.
SAMUEL SMILESHope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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Those who have most to do, and are willing to work, will find the most time.
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Character is undergoing constant change, for better or for worse–either being elevated on the one hand, or degraded on the other.
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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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No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
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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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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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Character is itself a fortune.
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Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Obedience, submission, discipline, courage–these are among the characteristics which make a man.
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Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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If we opened our minds to enjoyment, we might find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the angels that visit us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower.
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Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.
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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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The truest politeness comes of sincerity.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
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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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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
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When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.
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