This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.
SAMUEL SMILESIt 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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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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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
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The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
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Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.
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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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Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
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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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The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.
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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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The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.
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Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.
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The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object.
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The great high-road of human welfare lies along the old highway of steadfast, well-doing; and they who are the most persistent, and work in the truest spirit, will invariably be the most successful; success treads on the heels of every right effort.
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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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