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Hope… is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Samuel Smiles

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
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Attention Industry Man Old Perseverance Possession Travel Understand Wisdom
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
Those who aren’t making mistakes probably aren’t making anything.
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Failure Inspirational Mistake
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
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Conscience Religious Soul Weird
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow.
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Best Kind Progress Slow
The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.
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Difficult Greatness Man Service
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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Answer Blame Terrible World
Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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Act Man Respect Weight Word
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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Believe Patience Poor Sacrifice Woman World
The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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Corruption People Rule
No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
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Drink Industry Law Sober
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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Active Best Help Man Nature Necessary
Cheerfulness is also an excellent wearing quality. It has been called the bright weather of the heart.
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Bright Cheer Excellence Heart Quality
All life is a struggle…. Under competition the lazy man is put under the necessity of exerting himself; and if he will not exert himself, he must fall behind. If he do not work, neither shall he eat.
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Competition Eat Himself Life Necessary Struggle Work
Enthusiasm, the sustaining power of all great action.
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Action Enthusiasm Greatness Power
Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
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Labor Price Value

Hope… 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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