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There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Samuel Smiles

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.
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External Help
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.
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Act Consequence Training
Men often discover their affinity to each other by the mutual love they have for a book.
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Book Discover Each Other Love Man
There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet they stand as firmly upon it as any crowned king.
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Character Firm Person Possession Stand World
Cecil’s dispatch of business was extraordinary, his maxim being, “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.”
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Business Focus Oneself
Luck whines; labor whistles.
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Labor Luck Whistle
With will one can do anything.
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Oneself Willing
Self-control is only courage under another form.
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Control Courage Form
Make good thy standing place, and move the world.
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Goodness Move Place Stand World
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
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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Creation Enough Finding Man Opportunity Way
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Aspiration Himself Man Rise
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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Character Goodness Noble Possession Property
One might almost fear,” writes a thoughtful woman, “seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
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Faith Fashion Grandmother Mother
To set a lofty example is the richest bequest a man can leave behind.
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Example Leaving Legacy Man
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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Action Goodness Greatness World

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