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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

Samuel Smiles

The best school of discipline is home. Family life is God’s own method of training the young, and homes are very much as women make them.
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Discipline Family Home Life Training Women
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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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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Politeness goes far, yet costs nothing.
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Great men stamp their mind upon their age and nation.
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Stothard learned the art of combining colors by closely studying butterflies wings; he would often say that no one knew what he owed to these tiny insects. A burnt stick and a barn door served Wilkie in lieu of pencil and canvas.
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Butterfly Color Learning Service Study
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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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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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,–teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world’s good.
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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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Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.
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Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in after life the images first presented to it.
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Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.
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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 noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

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